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125125Nelson Special Edition - edited by Rob Davis & Woodrow Phoenix - &pound;75.00http://blankslatebooks.bigcartel.com/product/nelson-special-edition-edited-by-rob-davis-woodrow-phoenix
http://blankslatebooks.bigcartel.com/product/nelson-special-edition-edited-by-rob-davis-woodrow-phoenixTue, 16 Dec 2014 10:58:00 +0000<img src="http://images.bigcartel.com/product_images/149610919/nelsonspecialsideA.jpg?auto=format&fit=max&h=300&w=300" title="Nelson Special Edition - edited by Rob Davis & Woodrow Phoenix" align="left" style="margin:0 10px 10px 0;" />Published by BSB in 2011, Nelson is a very special book. Born from an original idea by Rob Davis and then brought to life by Davis, working with co-editor and production designer Woodrow Phoenix, Nelson showcases the incredible diversity of narrative talent in Britain today, with 54 people brought together to tell one unforgettable story, a year at a time.
Blank Slate is proud to present the original book in a new, very special hardback edition. Each copy is unique – containing a four-page insert that has been individually hand-signed by 52 of the 54 creators. These autographed hardbacks are housed in a beautiful custom slipcase with a debossed logo and ribbon, featuring a new drawing by Rob Davis on the spine and a cover illustration by the remarkable Frank Quitely.
The Nelson Special Edition is limited to 70 copies, exclusively available through this webstore.
<B> Signed Hardcover with slipcase | 256pp | Colour </B>Nelson Special Edition - edited by Rob Davis & Woodrow Phoenix - &pound;75.00Published by BSB in 2011, Nelson is a very special book. Born from an original idea by Rob Davis and then brought to life by Davis, working with co-editor and production designer Woodrow Phoenix, Nelson showcases the incredible diversity of narrative talent in Britain today, with 54 people brought together to tell one unforgettable story, a year at a time.
Blank Slate is proud to present the original book in a new, very special hardback edition. Each copy is unique – containing a four-page insert that has been individually hand-signed by 52 of the 54 creators. These autographed hardbacks are housed in a beautiful custom slipcase with a debossed logo and ribbon, featuring a new drawing by Rob Davis on the spine and a cover illustration by the remarkable Frank Quitely.
The Nelson Special Edition is limited to 70 copies, exclusively available through this webstore.
<B> Signed Hardcover with slipcase | 256pp | Colour </B>Departures - Pierre Maurel - &pound;9.99http://blankslatebooks.bigcartel.com/product/departures-pierre-maurel
http://blankslatebooks.bigcartel.com/product/departures-pierre-maurelTue, 16 Dec 2014 10:29:45 +0000<img src="http://images.bigcartel.com/product_images/149609512/DeparturesCoverFront.jpg?auto=format&fit=max&h=300&w=300" title="Departures - Pierre Maurel" align="left" style="margin:0 10px 10px 0;" />In his English-language debut, Pierre Maurel explores the effects of the global recession through three tales of twenty and thirty-somethings struggling at the bottom of the social ladder.
Taking place in an unspecified city, these stories overlay to create a narrative of low-income, low-expectation McJobs; unemployment; benefit meetings; homelessness; isolation; violent riots and urban decay. In the first story, an unemployed man begins to suspect he is going insane as his everyday life is invaded by visions of sprawling vegetation. Elsewhere, a bookseller being exploited by her unscrupulous manager is debating joining a union the media describes as “local terrorists”. Later, in the same bookstore, a couple find themselves pushed to their limit. But what happens when they try to push back?
Praised for the realism of his characters, Maurel’s cast perfectly exemplify the feelings of betrayal and alienation many feel over the broken promises of the new millennium. All faced with the opportunity to make a difference in their lives, will they accept their situation or attempt to find a new way of living?
<B> ISBN: 978-1-906653-27-9 | 80pp | Softcover with french flaps | Black & White </B>
Departures - Pierre Maurel - &pound;9.99In his English-language debut, Pierre Maurel explores the effects of the global recession through three tales of twenty and thirty-somethings struggling at the bottom of the social ladder.
Taking place in an unspecified city, these stories overlay to create a narrative of low-income, low-expectation McJobs; unemployment; benefit meetings; homelessness; isolation; violent riots and urban decay. In the first story, an unemployed man begins to suspect he is going insane as his everyday life is invaded by visions of sprawling vegetation. Elsewhere, a bookseller being exploited by her unscrupulous manager is debating joining a union the media describes as “local terrorists”. Later, in the same bookstore, a couple find themselves pushed to their limit. But what happens when they try to push back?
Praised for the realism of his characters, Maurel’s cast perfectly exemplify the feelings of betrayal and alienation many feel over the broken promises of the new millennium. All faced with the opportunity to make a difference in their lives, will they accept their situation or attempt to find a new way of living?
<B> ISBN: 978-1-906653-27-9 | 80pp | Softcover with french flaps | Black & White </B>
Beetroot - Barnaby Richards - &pound;11.99http://blankslatebooks.bigcartel.com/product/beetroot-barnaby-richards
http://blankslatebooks.bigcartel.com/product/beetroot-barnaby-richardsTue, 16 Dec 2014 10:14:57 +0000<img src="http://images.bigcartel.com/product_images/149608858/Beetrootcoverfrontsm.jpg?auto=format&fit=max&h=300&w=300" title="Beetroot - Barnaby Richards" align="left" style="margin:0 10px 10px 0;" />In this memoir of childhood, Barnaby Richards recounts how his family moved to Beirut in 1980 just as the already unstable situation in the Lebanon was about to turn into something worse. We see what it is like to live amidst chaos in a city where guns and bullets are commonplace, where danger lurks just round the corner. All seen through the eyes of a child who can’t get his tongue round the word Beirut–it becomes Beetroot–a world populated with his own wild imaginings as well as the reality of feeling he is living as if he were Lebanese: a blue eyed, arab boy.
Dreamily-etched pictures take us inside young Barnaby’s mind as he dodges bullets and giant sentient snakes, and wanders across the city’s rooftops with his imaginary friends. Open this book and accompany him on his journeys, encountering the many unknowable people and bizarre creatures with mysterious agendas who populate the strange world of Beetroot.
Ultimately this book is about the way memory works, how when combined with a child’s ability to mix reality and fantasy it leads to unreliable memories. Unreliable memories which become long-held realities.
<B>ISBN: 978-1-906653-60-6 | 64pp | Hardcover | Colour | £12.99 </B>Beetroot - Barnaby Richards - &pound;11.99In this memoir of childhood, Barnaby Richards recounts how his family moved to Beirut in 1980 just as the already unstable situation in the Lebanon was about to turn into something worse. We see what it is like to live amidst chaos in a city where guns and bullets are commonplace, where danger lurks just round the corner. All seen through the eyes of a child who can’t get his tongue round the word Beirut–it becomes Beetroot–a world populated with his own wild imaginings as well as the reality of feeling he is living as if he were Lebanese: a blue eyed, arab boy.
Dreamily-etched pictures take us inside young Barnaby’s mind as he dodges bullets and giant sentient snakes, and wanders across the city’s rooftops with his imaginary friends. Open this book and accompany him on his journeys, encountering the many unknowable people and bizarre creatures with mysterious agendas who populate the strange world of Beetroot.
Ultimately this book is about the way memory works, how when combined with a child’s ability to mix reality and fantasy it leads to unreliable memories. Unreliable memories which become long-held realities.
<B>ISBN: 978-1-906653-60-6 | 64pp | Hardcover | Colour | £12.99 </B>Alby Figgs - Warren Pleece - &pound;8.99http://blankslatebooks.bigcartel.com/product/alby-figgs-warren-pleece
http://blankslatebooks.bigcartel.com/product/alby-figgs-warren-pleeceFri, 13 Jun 2014 07:24:48 +0100<img src="http://images.bigcartel.com/product_images/139003612/Screen_Shot_2014-06-13_at_10.41.29.png?auto=format&fit=max&h=300&w=300" title="Alby Figgs - Warren Pleece" align="left" style="margin:0 10px 10px 0;" /> A collection of Warren Pleece’s first year of strips with his talkative
septuagenarian Londoner, Alby Figgs, as he wanders around town giving everyone the ‘benefit’ of his vast array of tales of the old times and his philosophical musings about life. Park bench sage or public enemy number 50,000? A man with an incredibly connected path or just a serial fabricator?
Take a stroll through Alby’s ‘everyday’, around the streets, pubs, cafés, shops and parks of London town as he extols elasticated truths, facts and theories to the disinterested, unsure and bemused without ever coming up for a breather.
This collection features 53 strips, revised and remixed for this edition, plus a few other special features.
Alby Figgs - Warren Pleece - &pound;8.99 A collection of Warren Pleece’s first year of strips with his talkative
septuagenarian Londoner, Alby Figgs, as he wanders around town giving everyone the ‘benefit’ of his vast array of tales of the old times and his philosophical musings about life. Park bench sage or public enemy number 50,000? A man with an incredibly connected path or just a serial fabricator?
Take a stroll through Alby’s ‘everyday’, around the streets, pubs, cafés, shops and parks of London town as he extols elasticated truths, facts and theories to the disinterested, unsure and bemused without ever coming up for a breather.
This collection features 53 strips, revised and remixed for this edition, plus a few other special features.
Uncle Bob Adventures: Volume 2 - Darryl Cunningham - &pound;14.99http://blankslatebooks.bigcartel.com/product/uncle-bob-adventures-volume-2
http://blankslatebooks.bigcartel.com/product/uncle-bob-adventures-volume-2Fri, 13 Jun 2014 07:05:53 +0100<img src="http://images.bigcartel.com/product_images/139002811/Screen_Shot_2014-06-13_at_12.03.02.png?auto=format&fit=max&h=300&w=300" title="Uncle Bob Adventures: Volume 2 - Darryl Cunningham" align="left" style="margin:0 10px 10px 0;" />For curious minds of all-ages comes Uncle Bob Adventures 2, the new volume from Darryl Cunningham, the acclaimed author of Psychiatric Tales.
Looking at him sitting in his favourite cosy armchair, you’d never guess that Bob was anything more than a friendly old man. However, underneath those white tufts of hair is an unmistakable glint in his eye—that of a globetrotting adventurer.
Recounting his outrageous escapades to his two nieces, Uncle Bob details
secret histories and unbelievable encounters. In this volume, Bob tells stories of ferocious beasts hidden at the heart of the jungle, a journey to the Earth’s core, his gunfight with a mysterious jewel thief, and meeting the famed giant ape of Skull Island.
Conceived as a tribute to the classic adventure, horror, and sci-fi stories
that continue to inspire Darryl Cunningham to this day, the author
humorously refers to Uncle Bob Adventures as a The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen for younger readers”. Written with same trademark intelligence and respect for his audience as in Darryl’s adult-oriented work, this is the perfect way to introduce childrenUncle Bob Adventures: Volume 2 - Darryl Cunningham - &pound;14.99For curious minds of all-ages comes Uncle Bob Adventures 2, the new volume from Darryl Cunningham, the acclaimed author of Psychiatric Tales.
Looking at him sitting in his favourite cosy armchair, you’d never guess that Bob was anything more than a friendly old man. However, underneath those white tufts of hair is an unmistakable glint in his eye—that of a globetrotting adventurer.
Recounting his outrageous escapades to his two nieces, Uncle Bob details
secret histories and unbelievable encounters. In this volume, Bob tells stories of ferocious beasts hidden at the heart of the jungle, a journey to the Earth’s core, his gunfight with a mysterious jewel thief, and meeting the famed giant ape of Skull Island.
Conceived as a tribute to the classic adventure, horror, and sci-fi stories
that continue to inspire Darryl Cunningham to this day, the author
humorously refers to Uncle Bob Adventures as a The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen for younger readers”. Written with same trademark intelligence and respect for his audience as in Darryl’s adult-oriented work, this is the perfect way to introduce childrenLove Looks Away - Line Hoven - &pound;14.99http://blankslatebooks.bigcartel.com/product/love-looks-away-line-hoven
http://blankslatebooks.bigcartel.com/product/love-looks-away-line-hovenTue, 26 Nov 2013 11:25:29 +0000<img src="http://images.bigcartel.com/product_images/128278623/LoveLooks-cover.png?auto=format&fit=max&h=300&w=300" title="Love Looks Away - Line Hoven" align="left" style="margin:0 10px 10px 0;" />Line Hoven's first Graphic Novel tells a tale of her family with stories from the past interwoven deftly with those of the present to show how with time and willingness, cultural barriers and prejudice can be overcome, because 'Love Looks Away'. The story begins with her Hitler Youth grandfather Erich - obsessed with his radio and the music of Mendelssohn, and goes on to show how her own parents overcame cultural and language difficulties to prove nothing is 'forbidden' where love is involved.
‘Love looks Away’ won the prestigious ICOM award in 2008 as the best Independent German comic.
Line Hoven is an illustrator and comic artist; she uses a highly meticulous scratchboard method - using black card and scratching out contrasting white lines, surface areas and filigree textures. The book has been translated into Italian, this will be it’s first appearance in English. Love Looks Away is the author’s first book; she lives and works in Hamburg.
“Again and again one discovers fine nuances in both content and aesthetics and these compound to make this comic book one of the most interesting German-speaking comic book publication of recent years.” Matthias Schneider, Goethe-Institut Stockholm.
“Love Looks Away', Line Hoven's first full length comic, is a delight not only because of the powerful, scratchboard images she's created. The side stepping story of her own American/German family proves the art of the 30 year old's storytelling. A true discovery.” Matthias Schmidt, Stern Magazine.Love Looks Away - Line Hoven - &pound;14.99Line Hoven's first Graphic Novel tells a tale of her family with stories from the past interwoven deftly with those of the present to show how with time and willingness, cultural barriers and prejudice can be overcome, because 'Love Looks Away'. The story begins with her Hitler Youth grandfather Erich - obsessed with his radio and the music of Mendelssohn, and goes on to show how her own parents overcame cultural and language difficulties to prove nothing is 'forbidden' where love is involved.
‘Love looks Away’ won the prestigious ICOM award in 2008 as the best Independent German comic.
Line Hoven is an illustrator and comic artist; she uses a highly meticulous scratchboard method - using black card and scratching out contrasting white lines, surface areas and filigree textures. The book has been translated into Italian, this will be it’s first appearance in English. Love Looks Away is the author’s first book; she lives and works in Hamburg.
“Again and again one discovers fine nuances in both content and aesthetics and these compound to make this comic book one of the most interesting German-speaking comic book publication of recent years.” Matthias Schneider, Goethe-Institut Stockholm.
“Love Looks Away', Line Hoven's first full length comic, is a delight not only because of the powerful, scratchboard images she's created. The side stepping story of her own American/German family proves the art of the 30 year old's storytelling. A true discovery.” Matthias Schmidt, Stern Magazine.Kochi Wanaba - &pound;14.99http://blankslatebooks.bigcartel.com/product/kochi-wanaba
http://blankslatebooks.bigcartel.com/product/kochi-wanabaTue, 26 Nov 2013 07:27:28 +0000<img src="http://images.bigcartel.com/product_images/128264037/Kochi-cover.png?auto=format&fit=max&h=300&w=300" title="Kochi Wanaba" align="left" style="margin:0 10px 10px 0;" />Kochi Wanaba is a quiet kid who loves nothing more than to draw secrets in his sketchbook. When the day of the annual Bee Festival falls upon his town, Kochi’s loud, hyperactive girlfriend Lhys can barely contain herself. Unfortunately for Kochi, tolerating Lhys’ excitement becomes the least of his problems as supernatural chaos breaks out all around them, threatening to change their lives forever.
Featuring a foul-mouthed cast of misfit school kids discovering how badly wrong friendship can go, events spin horrifically out of control as reality as they know it is turned upside down. Rendered in Jamie Smart’s characteristic illustration style that straddles the cute and the grotesque, Kochi Wanaba is a pencil-drawn graphic novel that combines all-out comedy with genuine, captivating emotional range. Kochi Wanaba is filled with mysteries that must be read to be decoded. What lies behind this madness? What is the hidden significance of the festival? Why does Kochi attract so many bugs?
Kochi Wanaba - &pound;14.99Kochi Wanaba is a quiet kid who loves nothing more than to draw secrets in his sketchbook. When the day of the annual Bee Festival falls upon his town, Kochi’s loud, hyperactive girlfriend Lhys can barely contain herself. Unfortunately for Kochi, tolerating Lhys’ excitement becomes the least of his problems as supernatural chaos breaks out all around them, threatening to change their lives forever.
Featuring a foul-mouthed cast of misfit school kids discovering how badly wrong friendship can go, events spin horrifically out of control as reality as they know it is turned upside down. Rendered in Jamie Smart’s characteristic illustration style that straddles the cute and the grotesque, Kochi Wanaba is a pencil-drawn graphic novel that combines all-out comedy with genuine, captivating emotional range. Kochi Wanaba is filled with mysteries that must be read to be decoded. What lies behind this madness? What is the hidden significance of the festival? Why does Kochi attract so many bugs?
Weak as I Am - Nigel Auchterlounie - &pound;12.99http://blankslatebooks.bigcartel.com/product/weak-as-i-am-nigel-auchterlounie
http://blankslatebooks.bigcartel.com/product/weak-as-i-am-nigel-auchterlounieTue, 26 Nov 2013 06:44:07 +0000<img src="http://images.bigcartel.com/product_images/128262195/Weak-cover.png?auto=format&fit=max&h=300&w=300" title="Weak as I Am - Nigel Auchterlounie" align="left" style="margin:0 10px 10px 0;" />Nigel Auchterlounie’s protagonist Spleenal, last seen in his own book of the same name, returns in Weak as I Am. An off-kilter exploration of a world just like this one except for an extra class of people for whom the usual rules don’t apply; those with powers. Powers which make them more than human and remove them from the grey everyday world, into a vividly technicolour wonderland of limitless possibilities. They live how they please, taking whatever they want, they don’t age, they don’t get up at six and spend three hours a day commuting to and from work, and nobody tells them what to do.
Spleenal, frustrated with his routine existence, longs to be one of them, and when he accidentally gains superpowers it’s the best day of his life… until he finds that his new upgraded existence might end violently at any moment. Suddenly it’s not such a great deal. How long is Spleenal going to survive when all the heroes are suddenly turning into villains?
Blank Slate Books, paperback, 124 pages, published November 2013 Weak as I Am - Nigel Auchterlounie - &pound;12.99Nigel Auchterlounie’s protagonist Spleenal, last seen in his own book of the same name, returns in Weak as I Am. An off-kilter exploration of a world just like this one except for an extra class of people for whom the usual rules don’t apply; those with powers. Powers which make them more than human and remove them from the grey everyday world, into a vividly technicolour wonderland of limitless possibilities. They live how they please, taking whatever they want, they don’t age, they don’t get up at six and spend three hours a day commuting to and from work, and nobody tells them what to do.
Spleenal, frustrated with his routine existence, longs to be one of them, and when he accidentally gains superpowers it’s the best day of his life… until he finds that his new upgraded existence might end violently at any moment. Suddenly it’s not such a great deal. How long is Spleenal going to survive when all the heroes are suddenly turning into villains?
Blank Slate Books, paperback, 124 pages, published November 2013 Uncle Bob Adventures: Volume 1 - &pound;14.99http://blankslatebooks.bigcartel.com/product/uncle-bob-adventures-volume-1
http://blankslatebooks.bigcartel.com/product/uncle-bob-adventures-volume-1Tue, 26 Nov 2013 05:52:23 +0000<img src="http://images.bigcartel.com/product_images/128260656/UncleBob1-cover.png?auto=format&fit=max&h=300&w=300" title="Uncle Bob Adventures: Volume 1" align="left" style="margin:0 10px 10px 0;" />Slate 13 | Flexi-cover paperback |68 pages | Published November 2013
Out now! Head over to our webstore to order today!
Free shipping within the UK, standard rates worldwide.
Prepare yourself for a roller-coaster ride through strangely familiar territory as Darryl Cunningham brings us these curiously direct yet subtly dark stories related by his man-of-action hero ‘Uncle Bob’. Soldier, adventurer, explorer and personal envoy to Her Majesty Queen Victoria, Bob is intrepid, fearless and more than a match for any of the bizarre foes he encounters in his incredible adventures on land or at sea, in the air or deep at the centre of the earth.
Terrific fun for all ages, these deceptively simple tales will put a smile on everyone’s faces. Famous for his highly acclaimed books Psychiatric Tales and Science Tales, this is an altogether different side of Darryl, as he indulges in these stories for children of all ages which allow him to abandon fact and embrace wild fantasy.Uncle Bob Adventures: Volume 1 - &pound;14.99Slate 13 | Flexi-cover paperback |68 pages | Published November 2013
Out now! Head over to our webstore to order today!
Free shipping within the UK, standard rates worldwide.
Prepare yourself for a roller-coaster ride through strangely familiar territory as Darryl Cunningham brings us these curiously direct yet subtly dark stories related by his man-of-action hero ‘Uncle Bob’. Soldier, adventurer, explorer and personal envoy to Her Majesty Queen Victoria, Bob is intrepid, fearless and more than a match for any of the bizarre foes he encounters in his incredible adventures on land or at sea, in the air or deep at the centre of the earth.
Terrific fun for all ages, these deceptively simple tales will put a smile on everyone’s faces. Famous for his highly acclaimed books Psychiatric Tales and Science Tales, this is an altogether different side of Darryl, as he indulges in these stories for children of all ages which allow him to abandon fact and embrace wild fantasy.Take Away! - Lizz Lunney - &pound;9.99http://blankslatebooks.bigcartel.com/product/take-away-lizz-lunney
http://blankslatebooks.bigcartel.com/product/take-away-lizz-lunneyTue, 26 Nov 2013 05:30:54 +0000<img src="http://images.bigcartel.com/product_images/128260101/TakeAway-cover.png?auto=format&fit=max&h=300&w=300" title="Take Away! - Lizz Lunney" align="left" style="margin:0 10px 10px 0;" />Lizz Lunney draws surrealist animals, household objects and items of food, all endowed with the sometimes questionable gift of consciousness, exploring various concepts of life and death in a humorous setting. Sometimes she draws humans. Take Away is a specially commissioned book for Blank Slate that collects all of Lizz’s favourite work from the last eight years, presented alongside lots and lots of brand new content. It’s designed with four sections in four different tasty spot colours for extra dazzle, to give you the best possible experience of Lizz Lunney’s world of existentially silly and serious situations!
Featuring two of her longest stories yet, starring Romantic Bison in an epic tale of love and misunderstandings, and Depressed Cat in a globe-trotting adventure into ennui. Plus lots of short strips, interludes and strange moments with other recurring characters. As if that isn't enough, unfold the cover and peek under the flaps and you'll find even more pert and punchy comic strip goodness. Take Away! is absolutely packed with comics!Take Away! - Lizz Lunney - &pound;9.99Lizz Lunney draws surrealist animals, household objects and items of food, all endowed with the sometimes questionable gift of consciousness, exploring various concepts of life and death in a humorous setting. Sometimes she draws humans. Take Away is a specially commissioned book for Blank Slate that collects all of Lizz’s favourite work from the last eight years, presented alongside lots and lots of brand new content. It’s designed with four sections in four different tasty spot colours for extra dazzle, to give you the best possible experience of Lizz Lunney’s world of existentially silly and serious situations!
Featuring two of her longest stories yet, starring Romantic Bison in an epic tale of love and misunderstandings, and Depressed Cat in a globe-trotting adventure into ennui. Plus lots of short strips, interludes and strange moments with other recurring characters. As if that isn't enough, unfold the cover and peek under the flaps and you'll find even more pert and punchy comic strip goodness. Take Away! is absolutely packed with comics!Pimo & Rex - Thomas Wellmann - &pound;11.99http://blankslatebooks.bigcartel.com/product/pimo-rex-thomas-wellmann
http://blankslatebooks.bigcartel.com/product/pimo-rex-thomas-wellmannThu, 17 Oct 2013 10:23:36 +0100<img src="http://images.bigcartel.com/product_images/126016977/Bildschirmfoto-2013-08-27-um-21.33.27.png?auto=format&fit=max&h=300&w=300" title="Pimo & Rex - Thomas Wellmann" align="left" style="margin:0 10px 10px 0;" /><strong>Blank Slate and Rotopol proudly present the latest comic by incomparable German cartoon genius, Thomas Wellmann.</strong>
Taking place in a fully developed fantasy world, readers are invited to meet Pimo Huerte, a struggling novelist-slash dashing swordsman and his best friend, the potion-making chef Rex Iman. Featuring two stories told with Wellmann’s astonishing full-colour art and energetic humour, our heroes’ adventures see them at odds with weird and wonderful foes such as an evil necromancer who will stop at nothing to become a master painter and an unstoppable archlibrarian, determined to take back Pimo’s overdue books by any means necessary.
Adventure Time aficionados will know Wellmann as the co-writer and storyboard artist on two of the show’s episodes and are sure to love seeing him work his unbridled magic in this solo English language debut.
Pimo & Rex is the first title to be co-published by the UK’s Blank Slate Books and Rotopol Press, Germany’s foremost alternative comics and illustration publisher. This partnership will see the English-language version of the book released on the same day as the German edition.
Full-colour, 44 pages. Released October 2013.
Pimo & Rex - Thomas Wellmann - &pound;11.99<strong>Blank Slate and Rotopol proudly present the latest comic by incomparable German cartoon genius, Thomas Wellmann.</strong>
Taking place in a fully developed fantasy world, readers are invited to meet Pimo Huerte, a struggling novelist-slash dashing swordsman and his best friend, the potion-making chef Rex Iman. Featuring two stories told with Wellmann’s astonishing full-colour art and energetic humour, our heroes’ adventures see them at odds with weird and wonderful foes such as an evil necromancer who will stop at nothing to become a master painter and an unstoppable archlibrarian, determined to take back Pimo’s overdue books by any means necessary.
Adventure Time aficionados will know Wellmann as the co-writer and storyboard artist on two of the show’s episodes and are sure to love seeing him work his unbridled magic in this solo English language debut.
Pimo & Rex is the first title to be co-published by the UK’s Blank Slate Books and Rotopol Press, Germany’s foremost alternative comics and illustration publisher. This partnership will see the English-language version of the book released on the same day as the German edition.
Full-colour, 44 pages. Released October 2013.
Psychiatric Tales: Expanded Edition - Darryl Cunningham - &pound;10.99http://blankslatebooks.bigcartel.com/product/psychiatric-tales-daryl-cunningham
http://blankslatebooks.bigcartel.com/product/psychiatric-tales-daryl-cunninghamFri, 03 Sep 2010 10:19:06 +0100<img src="http://images.bigcartel.com/product_images/119408490/Psychiatric_Tales-_Expanded_Edition.jpg?auto=format&fit=max&h=300&w=300" title="Psychiatric Tales: Expanded Edition - Darryl Cunningham" align="left" style="margin:0 10px 10px 0;" /><strong>Out now!</strong>
Psychiatric Tales returns in softcover with all-new additional content.
This book delves inside the mysteries of mental disorders – presenting explanations and recollections using the cartoonist’s own experiences as both a psychiatric and care nurse and as someone who himself has suffered from depression.
Being able to see the issue from both sides allows Darryl to present matters in a forthright and instantly accessible way which will allow many to understand the trials of both sufferers and those connected to them – perhaps for the first time. Topics covered include Bi-polar disorder, self harming, suicide, depression and the author also shows how for some famous people mental disorders were part of what may have made them great. Frank, hard hitting and moving.
<em>"This is a brilliant, hugely uplifting and thought provoking collection of stories and I heartily endorse it."
</em><a href="http://downthetubescomics.blogspot.com/2010/05/in-review-psychiatric-tales-by-darryl.html">John Freeman, Down the Tubes</a></em>
ISBN 9781906653088
softcover - 150 pages - B&W - Published April 2010
Slate 8Psychiatric Tales: Expanded Edition - Darryl Cunningham - &pound;10.99<strong>Out now!</strong>
Psychiatric Tales returns in softcover with all-new additional content.
This book delves inside the mysteries of mental disorders – presenting explanations and recollections using the cartoonist’s own experiences as both a psychiatric and care nurse and as someone who himself has suffered from depression.
Being able to see the issue from both sides allows Darryl to present matters in a forthright and instantly accessible way which will allow many to understand the trials of both sufferers and those connected to them – perhaps for the first time. Topics covered include Bi-polar disorder, self harming, suicide, depression and the author also shows how for some famous people mental disorders were part of what may have made them great. Frank, hard hitting and moving.
<em>"This is a brilliant, hugely uplifting and thought provoking collection of stories and I heartily endorse it."
</em><a href="http://downthetubescomics.blogspot.com/2010/05/in-review-psychiatric-tales-by-darryl.html">John Freeman, Down the Tubes</a></em>
ISBN 9781906653088
softcover - 150 pages - B&W - Published April 2010
Slate 8Playing Out - Jim Medway - &pound;8.99http://blankslatebooks.bigcartel.com/product/playing-out-jim-medway
http://blankslatebooks.bigcartel.com/product/playing-out-jim-medwayMon, 01 Jul 2013 08:21:36 +0100<img src="http://images.bigcartel.com/product_images/119370414/PLAYING-OUTCover.png?auto=format&fit=max&h=300&w=300" title="Playing Out - Jim Medway" align="left" style="margin:0 10px 10px 0;" />It’s the Summer holidays in Manchester and Kieran, Jamal and Connor are doing what any self-respecting kids would do on a Saturday: killing time by walking around the city centre. Aimlessly exploring the shops, the trio find themselves window-shopping for trainers, hunting for money in pay- phones, drooling over the older girls from their school and traveling to the top of the multi-story car park just to see the view.
A kid’s-eye perspective of life, Playing Out is for all of us who fondly remember weekends spent marauding with no money and precious few responsibilities. As the boys travel around, the real story is told not by what they are doing, but through the conversations and interactions they have along the way. Disgruntled shopkeepers distrust them on principle, local goths become the subject of both their ridicule and secret awe and off-duty teachers blow their minds by—shock horror—having a life outside of school too.Playing Out - Jim Medway - &pound;8.99It’s the Summer holidays in Manchester and Kieran, Jamal and Connor are doing what any self-respecting kids would do on a Saturday: killing time by walking around the city centre. Aimlessly exploring the shops, the trio find themselves window-shopping for trainers, hunting for money in pay- phones, drooling over the older girls from their school and traveling to the top of the multi-story car park just to see the view.
A kid’s-eye perspective of life, Playing Out is for all of us who fondly remember weekends spent marauding with no money and precious few responsibilities. As the boys travel around, the real story is told not by what they are doing, but through the conversations and interactions they have along the way. Disgruntled shopkeepers distrust them on principle, local goths become the subject of both their ridicule and secret awe and off-duty teachers blow their minds by—shock horror—having a life outside of school too.Death & The Girls - Donya Todd - &pound;8.99http://blankslatebooks.bigcartel.com/product/death-the-girls
http://blankslatebooks.bigcartel.com/product/death-the-girlsMon, 01 Jul 2013 08:17:15 +0100<img src="http://images.bigcartel.com/product_images/119368434/deathandthegirls_frontcover.png?auto=format&fit=max&h=300&w=300" title="Death & The Girls - Donya Todd" align="left" style="margin:0 10px 10px 0;" />Meet the Nubian Sisters: Betsy, Bunny and Batstone. A hangover is the least of their problems after a tequila-fuelled night in the Mexican desert leads to Betsy having a threesome with an anthropomorphic washing machine and Death himself. Love-struck, the grim reaper decides that he wants Betsy’s fleshy pink hand in marriage, and is willing to chase her to the ends of the Earth for it. As if that wasn’t bad enough, Betsy’s woes are magnified when she finds out that she’s pregnant with Ol’ Washy’s child!
Riding ponies, hotwired donkeys and magic bikes across an hallucinogenic landscape, the girls find themselves everywhere from haunted swamps to outdoor supermarkets and face-to-face with a cast of freaky friends and foes that include naked cowboys, Polynesian princesses and omnipotent deities with venereal problems. More “vomit and profanity” than “sugar and spice”, join the Nubian Sisters as they leave a trail of destruction and exhausted lovers in their wake.
Donya Todd bursts onto the UK comics scene with this tale of debauchery, insanity and sexual escapades. Known for her surreal artwork that draws upon macabre influences, she brings all of that with tipped-brow to Mexican folk-art in this latest release from Blank Slate's New British Comics initiative.Death & The Girls - Donya Todd - &pound;8.99Meet the Nubian Sisters: Betsy, Bunny and Batstone. A hangover is the least of their problems after a tequila-fuelled night in the Mexican desert leads to Betsy having a threesome with an anthropomorphic washing machine and Death himself. Love-struck, the grim reaper decides that he wants Betsy’s fleshy pink hand in marriage, and is willing to chase her to the ends of the Earth for it. As if that wasn’t bad enough, Betsy’s woes are magnified when she finds out that she’s pregnant with Ol’ Washy’s child!
Riding ponies, hotwired donkeys and magic bikes across an hallucinogenic landscape, the girls find themselves everywhere from haunted swamps to outdoor supermarkets and face-to-face with a cast of freaky friends and foes that include naked cowboys, Polynesian princesses and omnipotent deities with venereal problems. More “vomit and profanity” than “sugar and spice”, join the Nubian Sisters as they leave a trail of destruction and exhausted lovers in their wake.
Donya Todd bursts onto the UK comics scene with this tale of debauchery, insanity and sexual escapades. Known for her surreal artwork that draws upon macabre influences, she brings all of that with tipped-brow to Mexican folk-art in this latest release from Blank Slate's New British Comics initiative.The Listening Agent - Joe Decie - &pound;8.99http://blankslatebooks.bigcartel.com/product/the-listening-agent-joe-decie
http://blankslatebooks.bigcartel.com/product/the-listening-agent-joe-decieMon, 01 Jul 2013 07:49:30 +0100<img src="http://images.bigcartel.com/product_images/119365218/054-The-Listening-Agent.png?auto=format&fit=max&h=300&w=300" title="The Listening Agent - Joe Decie" align="left" style="margin:0 10px 10px 0;" />Slate 56 | 285 x 211mm hardcover | 56 pages | B&W | £8.99
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Smudging the line between reality and fiction.
Whether he’s contemplating the emotional state of the last pickle in the jar or detailling his four-year-old son’s new business of running a fashionable East London tattoo parlour, there’s definitely something different about Joe Decie’s tales of everyday life.
In this new collection of half-embellished tales, Decie takes a sideways look at everything from shopping malls to identity theft and reveals the strange challenges (and stranger rewards) of parenthood. In this volume, Decie’s son competes with his father for centre stage and stars in some of the cartoonist’s funniest and most touching strips yet.
If you’re still yet to join the legion of readers around the world who have fallen in love with Joe Decie’s left-field wit and beautiful ink-washed art, The Listening Agent is the perfect opportunity to see one of Britain’s brightest new comic stars at work. Don’t miss out.
Praise for Joe Decie
“Joe Decie’s lovely, understated comics about everyday domestic life sway seamlessly, and joyfully, from the mundane into the absurd and then back home again”
-John Porcellino, King Cat Comics
“Read one of Joe Decie’s comics and you’ll ﬁnd they don’t demand you to keep reading so much as politely ask if you wouldn’t mind continuing, perhaps you’d also like this next one as well. The fact that they’re charmingly drawn and full of understated humour and sensitivity makes it all the harder not to keep reading, and liking them.”
- Jeffrey Brown, author of Clumsy and Little Things
“… always love the way Joe blends the suburban with the surreal. Even with the wilder strips there is a strong foundation of truth and honesty – something every writer should strive for”
-Ian Carney, EMMY award-winning writer of Shaun the Sheep
Published 2013.The Listening Agent - Joe Decie - &pound;8.99Slate 56 | 285 x 211mm hardcover | 56 pages | B&W | £8.99
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Smudging the line between reality and fiction.
Whether he’s contemplating the emotional state of the last pickle in the jar or detailling his four-year-old son’s new business of running a fashionable East London tattoo parlour, there’s definitely something different about Joe Decie’s tales of everyday life.
In this new collection of half-embellished tales, Decie takes a sideways look at everything from shopping malls to identity theft and reveals the strange challenges (and stranger rewards) of parenthood. In this volume, Decie’s son competes with his father for centre stage and stars in some of the cartoonist’s funniest and most touching strips yet.
If you’re still yet to join the legion of readers around the world who have fallen in love with Joe Decie’s left-field wit and beautiful ink-washed art, The Listening Agent is the perfect opportunity to see one of Britain’s brightest new comic stars at work. Don’t miss out.
Praise for Joe Decie
“Joe Decie’s lovely, understated comics about everyday domestic life sway seamlessly, and joyfully, from the mundane into the absurd and then back home again”
-John Porcellino, King Cat Comics
“Read one of Joe Decie’s comics and you’ll ﬁnd they don’t demand you to keep reading so much as politely ask if you wouldn’t mind continuing, perhaps you’d also like this next one as well. The fact that they’re charmingly drawn and full of understated humour and sensitivity makes it all the harder not to keep reading, and liking them.”
- Jeffrey Brown, author of Clumsy and Little Things
“… always love the way Joe blends the suburban with the surreal. Even with the wilder strips there is a strong foundation of truth and honesty – something every writer should strive for”
-Ian Carney, EMMY award-winning writer of Shaun the Sheep
Published 2013.The Suitcase - Dan Berry - &pound;8.99http://blankslatebooks.bigcartel.com/product/the-suitcase-dan-berry
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When an elderly woman tasked with looking after her neighbours’ pets for the week returns to find the family dog has passed away, she’s faced with a major problem. Unable to drive - and with her deranged neighbour offering no help whatsoever – how on Earth can she get Cruncher’s body across town to the vet’s to take care of before the family returns? And then she has an idea….
And so the journey of the suitcase and its strange contents begins.
In his debut graphic novel, Dan Berry uncovers the delirium that lurks beneath suburban life. Told across three interlocking tales of woe, we are taken on a tour through a world of dead pets, kindly neighbours, petty thieves, desperate men and people on the edge of sanity. Will Cruncher make it to the vet’s? Can one man succeed in his top-secret mission to sneak his neighbour’s dead rabbit back into its hutch? Is there any way an unhinged Top Gear fan’s amateur camcorder review of his Rover 75 will end well? Find out all this and more when you open up The Suitcase this Autumn from Blank Slate.
One of the UK’s fastest rising stars, Dan Berry has been wowing readers across the UK and French convention circuit with his trademark humour and expressive cartooning for some time. The book fans have been waiting for, The Suitcase showcases Berry’s unique humour and style as he caustically and affectionately explores the madness that may just be bubbling underneath an neighbourhood near you.
By: Dan Berry | 50 pages | 285 x 211mm | hardback | full-colour | ISBN: 978-1-906653-58-3
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When an elderly woman tasked with looking after her neighbours’ pets for the week returns to find the family dog has passed away, she’s faced with a major problem. Unable to drive - and with her deranged neighbour offering no help whatsoever – how on Earth can she get Cruncher’s body across town to the vet’s to take care of before the family returns? And then she has an idea….
And so the journey of the suitcase and its strange contents begins.
In his debut graphic novel, Dan Berry uncovers the delirium that lurks beneath suburban life. Told across three interlocking tales of woe, we are taken on a tour through a world of dead pets, kindly neighbours, petty thieves, desperate men and people on the edge of sanity. Will Cruncher make it to the vet’s? Can one man succeed in his top-secret mission to sneak his neighbour’s dead rabbit back into its hutch? Is there any way an unhinged Top Gear fan’s amateur camcorder review of his Rover 75 will end well? Find out all this and more when you open up The Suitcase this Autumn from Blank Slate.
One of the UK’s fastest rising stars, Dan Berry has been wowing readers across the UK and French convention circuit with his trademark humour and expressive cartooning for some time. The book fans have been waiting for, The Suitcase showcases Berry’s unique humour and style as he caustically and affectionately explores the madness that may just be bubbling underneath an neighbourhood near you.
By: Dan Berry | 50 pages | 285 x 211mm | hardback | full-colour | ISBN: 978-1-906653-58-3
<strong>PRAISE FOR DAN BERRY </strong>
“Dan Berry’s delicate drawings perfectly outline a world that is funny and also a little sad.”
-Eleanor Davis (MOME, Best American Comics, The Secret Science AllianceSwear Down - Oliver East - &pound;14.99http://blankslatebooks.bigcartel.com/product/swear-down
http://blankslatebooks.bigcartel.com/product/swear-downFri, 26 Apr 2013 03:43:28 +0100<img src="http://images.bigcartel.com/product_images/106038165/8d03726470c6b19c1b4cfee9b4c36d28.image.419x550.jpg?auto=format&fit=max&h=300&w=300" title="Swear Down - Oliver East" align="left" style="margin:0 10px 10px 0;" /><strong>By Oliver East | 130 pp | 236 x 178mm | full colour | hardcover | £14.99</strong>
East walks out of his front door and follows the line of longitude through England, France, Spain then Africa. In this first volume East walks from his Manchester home out and into England recording the landscape, the architecture, flora, fauna and the thing he’s walking away from in the first place.”
By far the most personal of Ollie East’s works, this book cov- ers the changes brought about by the birth of his first child and the impact of the difficult birth on both himself and his wife Claire. At times painfully honest, always deeply felt and human, it’s another step along the path to becoming one of comics’ true originals.
“Oliver East’s perambulating comics are thoroughly unique and Swear Down is his best yet”
- John Porcellino, creator of King-Cat Comics and Stories
“Technically inventive with formal sleights of hand, this is a rare type of comic book that reads like a poem. Swear Down is like a train trip through one’s memory to the station of the heart.”
- Frank Santoro, creator of Storeyville and Cold Heat
OLIVER EAST is an Ignatz award-nominated comic creator with an unique style helping redefine UK comics. Familiar to music lov- ers as the cover artist on the Mercury award winning Elbow album The Seldom Seen Kid (as well as providing art for the video for ‘Open Arms’ from ‘Build A Rocket Boys!’), Oliver divides his time between pro- fessional illustration and his comics work. He cur- rently lives in Manchester with his wife and son.Swear Down - Oliver East - &pound;14.99<strong>By Oliver East | 130 pp | 236 x 178mm | full colour | hardcover | £14.99</strong>
East walks out of his front door and follows the line of longitude through England, France, Spain then Africa. In this first volume East walks from his Manchester home out and into England recording the landscape, the architecture, flora, fauna and the thing he’s walking away from in the first place.”
By far the most personal of Ollie East’s works, this book cov- ers the changes brought about by the birth of his first child and the impact of the difficult birth on both himself and his wife Claire. At times painfully honest, always deeply felt and human, it’s another step along the path to becoming one of comics’ true originals.
“Oliver East’s perambulating comics are thoroughly unique and Swear Down is his best yet”
- John Porcellino, creator of King-Cat Comics and Stories
“Technically inventive with formal sleights of hand, this is a rare type of comic book that reads like a poem. Swear Down is like a train trip through one’s memory to the station of the heart.”
- Frank Santoro, creator of Storeyville and Cold Heat
OLIVER EAST is an Ignatz award-nominated comic creator with an unique style helping redefine UK comics. Familiar to music lov- ers as the cover artist on the Mercury award winning Elbow album The Seldom Seen Kid (as well as providing art for the video for ‘Open Arms’ from ‘Build A Rocket Boys!’), Oliver divides his time between pro- fessional illustration and his comics work. He cur- rently lives in Manchester with his wife and son.The Silver Darlings - Will Morris - &pound;9.99http://blankslatebooks.bigcartel.com/product/the-silver-darlings-will-morris
http://blankslatebooks.bigcartel.com/product/the-silver-darlings-will-morrisFri, 16 Nov 2012 17:37:00 +0000<img src="http://images.bigcartel.com/product_images/79011729/6996123879_a52e422889_b.jpg?auto=format&fit=max&h=300&w=300" title="The Silver Darlings - Will Morris" align="left" style="margin:0 10px 10px 0;" />Ayrshire, 1967. It’s avid photographer Danny’s last summer in his home town before he heads off to Glasgow and to college. But before he leaves the ailing fishing community he has a long week in prospect on board his dad’s fishing boat, The Silver Darling.
Uninspired by the family business and with a head full of modern ideas, Danny decides to challenge the crew’s superstitions and bring ‘a spirit of enlightenment’ to his week at sea. But by taking aboard a strictly forbidden cargo, Danny gets more than he bargained for and learns a few lessons of his own.
Writer and artist Will Morris revisits an industry in decline to create a story that’s as much a coming-of-age tale as it is a tribute to Ayrshire’s historic fishing community. Packed with humour, pathos and rendered in Morris’ beautifully atmospheric ink-washed art, The Silver Darlings is an unmissable debut graphic novel from one of UK comic’s fastest-rising stars.
Praise for Will Morris & The Silver Darlings
“Will Morris sculpts a world of wild, glittering seas and inner turmoil from delicate watercolour, expressive lines and sparse, potent words. You can practically smell the sea salt on his drawings. Superstition, luck – it’s all in the mind, isn’t it? The Silver Darlings makes irrational beliefs as tangible as waves, as biting as storm spray in your face. A beautiful book.”
- Nick Abadzis, Eisner-winning author of Laika and Hugo TateThe Silver Darlings - Will Morris - &pound;9.99Ayrshire, 1967. It’s avid photographer Danny’s last summer in his home town before he heads off to Glasgow and to college. But before he leaves the ailing fishing community he has a long week in prospect on board his dad’s fishing boat, The Silver Darling.
Uninspired by the family business and with a head full of modern ideas, Danny decides to challenge the crew’s superstitions and bring ‘a spirit of enlightenment’ to his week at sea. But by taking aboard a strictly forbidden cargo, Danny gets more than he bargained for and learns a few lessons of his own.
Writer and artist Will Morris revisits an industry in decline to create a story that’s as much a coming-of-age tale as it is a tribute to Ayrshire’s historic fishing community. Packed with humour, pathos and rendered in Morris’ beautifully atmospheric ink-washed art, The Silver Darlings is an unmissable debut graphic novel from one of UK comic’s fastest-rising stars.
Praise for Will Morris & The Silver Darlings
“Will Morris sculpts a world of wild, glittering seas and inner turmoil from delicate watercolour, expressive lines and sparse, potent words. You can practically smell the sea salt on his drawings. Superstition, luck – it’s all in the mind, isn’t it? The Silver Darlings makes irrational beliefs as tangible as waves, as biting as storm spray in your face. A beautiful book.”
- Nick Abadzis, Eisner-winning author of Laika and Hugo TateFelt Mistress: Creature Couture (with limited edition Golden Tippy toy) - &pound;47.99http://blankslatebooks.bigcartel.com/product/felt-mistress-creature-couture-with-limited-edition-golden-tippy-toy
http://blankslatebooks.bigcartel.com/product/felt-mistress-creature-couture-with-limited-edition-golden-tippy-toyTue, 17 Jul 2012 07:08:16 +0100<img src="http://images.bigcartel.com/product_images/77261364/felttip.png?auto=format&fit=max&h=300&w=300" title="Felt Mistress: Creature Couture (with limited edition Golden Tippy toy)" align="left" style="margin:0 10px 10px 0;" /><strong>Comes with Blank Slate exclusive gold colourway Tippy vinyl toy by Crazylabel. Only 250 made. Pictures coming soon.</strong>
<strong>All pre-orders come with a chance of winning the "Felt Ticket". Hidden inside one pre-ordered copy of the book, the winner of the fabled ticket will get to take home Elspeth, the book's cover star!</strong>
Since 1994, Felt Mistress has been hard at work, creating a legion of one-of-a-kind bespoke creatures. Working collaboratively with her partner, illustrator and toy designer Jonathan Edwards, the inimitable Louise Evans has brought hundreds and hundreds of amazing characters to life and has been featured in countless exhibitions worldwide.
Collecting over 8 years' of work, Blank Slate and editor Woodrow Phoenix (Plastic Culture: How Japanese Toys Conquered the World, Nelson) are proud to present Creature Couture. From Demetri the pipe-smoking Yeti, to monster-truck lovin’ Dwight Klugg, to fan-favourite adventurer Tippy Winkles, the book features well in excess of 500 creatures and contains character information, Jonathan Edwards' original design ideas, collaborations with other artists and more. Also includes interviews with celebrated collaborations such as Jon Burgerman, Pete Fowler, Ben Newman, John Knox, Nobrow and more.
<strong>Edited by Woodrow Phoenix | 400 pp | Full-colour | Hardcover </strong>
<strong>Good news! We were able to get our production costs down on the book since first offering it for pre-order and are now offering this 400 page monster plus toy for just £47.99. For those of you who pre-ordered at 26.99, please contact us for a £2 refund</strong>Felt Mistress: Creature Couture (with limited edition Golden Tippy toy) - &pound;47.99<strong>Comes with Blank Slate exclusive gold colourway Tippy vinyl toy by Crazylabel. Only 250 made. Pictures coming soon.</strong>
<strong>All pre-orders come with a chance of winning the "Felt Ticket". Hidden inside one pre-ordered copy of the book, the winner of the fabled ticket will get to take home Elspeth, the book's cover star!</strong>
Since 1994, Felt Mistress has been hard at work, creating a legion of one-of-a-kind bespoke creatures. Working collaboratively with her partner, illustrator and toy designer Jonathan Edwards, the inimitable Louise Evans has brought hundreds and hundreds of amazing characters to life and has been featured in countless exhibitions worldwide.
Collecting over 8 years' of work, Blank Slate and editor Woodrow Phoenix (Plastic Culture: How Japanese Toys Conquered the World, Nelson) are proud to present Creature Couture. From Demetri the pipe-smoking Yeti, to monster-truck lovin’ Dwight Klugg, to fan-favourite adventurer Tippy Winkles, the book features well in excess of 500 creatures and contains character information, Jonathan Edwards' original design ideas, collaborations with other artists and more. Also includes interviews with celebrated collaborations such as Jon Burgerman, Pete Fowler, Ben Newman, John Knox, Nobrow and more.
<strong>Edited by Woodrow Phoenix | 400 pp | Full-colour | Hardcover </strong>
<strong>Good news! We were able to get our production costs down on the book since first offering it for pre-order and are now offering this 400 page monster plus toy for just £47.99. For those of you who pre-ordered at 26.99, please contact us for a £2 refund</strong>Felt Mistress: Creature Couture - &pound;24.99http://blankslatebooks.bigcartel.com/product/felt-mistress-creature-couture
http://blankslatebooks.bigcartel.com/product/felt-mistress-creature-coutureTue, 17 Jul 2012 07:00:41 +0100<img src="http://images.bigcartel.com/product_images/65987165/COVER.png?auto=format&fit=max&h=300&w=300" title="Felt Mistress: Creature Couture" align="left" style="margin:0 10px 10px 0;" /><strong>All pre-orders come with a chance of winning the "Felt Ticket". Hidden inside one pre-ordered copy of the book, the winner of the fabled ticket will get to take home Elspeth, the book's cover star!</strong>
Since 1994, Felt Mistress has been hard at work, creating a legion of one-of-a-kind bespoke creatures. Working collaboratively with her partner, illustrator and toy designer Jonathan Edwards, the inimitable Louise Evans has brought hundreds and hundreds of amazing characters to life and has been featured in countless exhibitions worldwide.
Collecting over 8 years' of work, Blank Slate and editor Woodrow Phoenix (Plastic Culture: How Japanese Toys Conquered the World, Nelson) are proud to present Creature Couture. From Demetri the pipe-smoking Yeti, to monster-truck lovin’ Dwight Klugg, to fan-favourite adventurer Tippy Winkles, the book features well in excess of 500 creatures and contains character information, Jonathan Edwards' original design ideas, collaborations with other artists and more. Also includes interviews with celebrated collaborations such as Jon Burgerman, Pete Fowler, Ben Newman, John Knox, Nobrow and more.
<strong>Good news! We were able to get our production costs down on the book since first offering it for pre-order and are now offering this 400 page monster for just £24.99. For those of you who pre-ordered at 26.99, please contact us for a £2 refund</strong>Felt Mistress: Creature Couture - &pound;24.99<strong>All pre-orders come with a chance of winning the "Felt Ticket". Hidden inside one pre-ordered copy of the book, the winner of the fabled ticket will get to take home Elspeth, the book's cover star!</strong>
Since 1994, Felt Mistress has been hard at work, creating a legion of one-of-a-kind bespoke creatures. Working collaboratively with her partner, illustrator and toy designer Jonathan Edwards, the inimitable Louise Evans has brought hundreds and hundreds of amazing characters to life and has been featured in countless exhibitions worldwide.
Collecting over 8 years' of work, Blank Slate and editor Woodrow Phoenix (Plastic Culture: How Japanese Toys Conquered the World, Nelson) are proud to present Creature Couture. From Demetri the pipe-smoking Yeti, to monster-truck lovin’ Dwight Klugg, to fan-favourite adventurer Tippy Winkles, the book features well in excess of 500 creatures and contains character information, Jonathan Edwards' original design ideas, collaborations with other artists and more. Also includes interviews with celebrated collaborations such as Jon Burgerman, Pete Fowler, Ben Newman, John Knox, Nobrow and more.
<strong>Good news! We were able to get our production costs down on the book since first offering it for pre-order and are now offering this 400 page monster for just £24.99. For those of you who pre-ordered at 26.99, please contact us for a £2 refund</strong>Hugo Tate - Nick Abadzis - &pound;14.99http://blankslatebooks.bigcartel.com/product/hugo-tate-nick-abadzis
http://blankslatebooks.bigcartel.com/product/hugo-tate-nick-abadzisTue, 28 Feb 2012 16:45:41 +0000<img src="http://images.bigcartel.com/product_images/54729801/3D-Book-Model---Hugo.jpg?auto=format&fit=max&h=300&w=300" title="Hugo Tate - Nick Abadzis" align="left" style="margin:0 10px 10px 0;" /><strong>Available Now! Comes with an exclusive "Fear & Loathing" bookplate signed by the author while stocks last.</strong>
Eighteen years after Hugo Tate drew to a close within the pages of Deadline, publisher Blank Slate is collecting the comic’s celebrated entire six-year run in a single graphic novel for the first time ever.
Running in the influential music and comics magazine between 1988 and 1994, Hugo Tate appeared alongside titles such as Jamie Hewlett and Alan Martin’s Tank Girl and Philip Bond's Wired World. One of the most vital and important eras of UK comics, Hugo was an integral part of a wave of work that redefined the potential of the form for a generation of readers.
Beginning as an acerbic humour strip featuring a stick man protagonist in a figuratively drawn world, Hugo Tate evolved into an intelligent look into the lives of a complex web of characters. Described by The Comics Journal as “Britain’s _Love and Rockets_“, Hugo's world stretched from London to New York and beyond and examining themes of friendship, family, relationships, depression, self-discovery and Generation X malaise.
Collected in its entirety for the first time, this graphic novel brings together every page of the story and includes over 60 pages of never-before reprinted work. Also included is the critically-acclaimed final story arc O, America!, in which Hugo finds himself on a drug-fuelled road trip across the nightmarish underbelly of the United States. Featuring a gallery of rare extras, all-new commentary from Abadzis and Deadline editor Frank Wynne, as well as a special introduction by Garth Ennis (Preacher, Hellblazer), there’s never been a better time to read – or revisit – this genuine classic of British comics.
<strong>ISBN 978-1-906653-26-2 | 192 pages | 217 x 216mm softcover with flaps, b&w | 192 pages | £14.99</strong>Hugo Tate - Nick Abadzis - &pound;14.99<strong>Available Now! Comes with an exclusive "Fear & Loathing" bookplate signed by the author while stocks last.</strong>
Eighteen years after Hugo Tate drew to a close within the pages of Deadline, publisher Blank Slate is collecting the comic’s celebrated entire six-year run in a single graphic novel for the first time ever.
Running in the influential music and comics magazine between 1988 and 1994, Hugo Tate appeared alongside titles such as Jamie Hewlett and Alan Martin’s Tank Girl and Philip Bond's Wired World. One of the most vital and important eras of UK comics, Hugo was an integral part of a wave of work that redefined the potential of the form for a generation of readers.
Beginning as an acerbic humour strip featuring a stick man protagonist in a figuratively drawn world, Hugo Tate evolved into an intelligent look into the lives of a complex web of characters. Described by The Comics Journal as “Britain’s _Love and Rockets_“, Hugo's world stretched from London to New York and beyond and examining themes of friendship, family, relationships, depression, self-discovery and Generation X malaise.
Collected in its entirety for the first time, this graphic novel brings together every page of the story and includes over 60 pages of never-before reprinted work. Also included is the critically-acclaimed final story arc O, America!, in which Hugo finds himself on a drug-fuelled road trip across the nightmarish underbelly of the United States. Featuring a gallery of rare extras, all-new commentary from Abadzis and Deadline editor Frank Wynne, as well as a special introduction by Garth Ennis (Preacher, Hellblazer), there’s never been a better time to read – or revisit – this genuine classic of British comics.
<strong>ISBN 978-1-906653-26-2 | 192 pages | 217 x 216mm softcover with flaps, b&w | 192 pages | £14.99</strong>Peepholes - Laurie J. Proud - &pound;16.99http://blankslatebooks.bigcartel.com/product/peepholes-laurie-j-proud
http://blankslatebooks.bigcartel.com/product/peepholes-laurie-j-proudTue, 11 Oct 2011 09:14:01 +0100<img src="http://images.bigcartel.com/product_images/45155189/Flickr-0.jpg?auto=format&fit=max&h=300&w=300" title="Peepholes - Laurie J. Proud" align="left" style="margin:0 10px 10px 0;" /><strong>Comes with signed limited edition bookplate while stocks last</strong>
“What colour is the moon?”, “Red, silly girl.”, “have you seen my blacken’ eyed dog?”, “I’ll be your do-og...”.
And with that, the wolf-man climbs atop the naked bottom of the kneeling woman—electric shaver in hand.
In Peepholes, Laurie J. Proud peers into the worlds that lie behind closed doors—where everyday stuck-on smiles are shaken off to reveal the darkness and inner-yearnings they obscure.
Ten beautifully-crafted stories of the bizarre take us through somnambulant cities where businessmen walk up the sides of buildings, werewolves go to midnight screenings, love-struck hitmen are hired to kill their favourite movie starlets and literal towers of self-pity threaten to collapse at any moment. Veering in between dreams and nightmares, Proud’s oblique visions of urban and emotional chaos range from the darkly comical to bitingly poignant.
Created over a ten-year period whilst Proud worked professionally as an animator and storyboardist, Blank Slate now binds these stories together in a special 122-page hardcover presentation. Fans of creators such as Al Columbia and Ho Che Anderson will find a lot to love in work that’s captivating and unsettling in equal measure. For everyone else, this is a chance to see a new UK comics talent emerge with a fully formed creative voice. Do you dare peek through to the other side?
<strong>122-pages, full colour • 23x17cm hardcover • Published October 23rd, 2011 • £16.99/$22.99 • ISBN: 978-1-906653-24-8</strong>Peepholes - Laurie J. Proud - &pound;16.99<strong>Comes with signed limited edition bookplate while stocks last</strong>
“What colour is the moon?”, “Red, silly girl.”, “have you seen my blacken’ eyed dog?”, “I’ll be your do-og...”.
And with that, the wolf-man climbs atop the naked bottom of the kneeling woman—electric shaver in hand.
In Peepholes, Laurie J. Proud peers into the worlds that lie behind closed doors—where everyday stuck-on smiles are shaken off to reveal the darkness and inner-yearnings they obscure.
Ten beautifully-crafted stories of the bizarre take us through somnambulant cities where businessmen walk up the sides of buildings, werewolves go to midnight screenings, love-struck hitmen are hired to kill their favourite movie starlets and literal towers of self-pity threaten to collapse at any moment. Veering in between dreams and nightmares, Proud’s oblique visions of urban and emotional chaos range from the darkly comical to bitingly poignant.
Created over a ten-year period whilst Proud worked professionally as an animator and storyboardist, Blank Slate now binds these stories together in a special 122-page hardcover presentation. Fans of creators such as Al Columbia and Ho Che Anderson will find a lot to love in work that’s captivating and unsettling in equal measure. For everyone else, this is a chance to see a new UK comics talent emerge with a fully formed creative voice. Do you dare peek through to the other side?
<strong>122-pages, full colour • 23x17cm hardcover • Published October 23rd, 2011 • £16.99/$22.99 • ISBN: 978-1-906653-24-8</strong>The Survivalist - Box Brown - &pound;5.99http://blankslatebooks.bigcartel.com/product/the-survivalist-box-brown
http://blankslatebooks.bigcartel.com/product/the-survivalist-box-brownFri, 04 Nov 2011 10:33:58 +0000<img src="http://images.bigcartel.com/product_images/46826879/The-Survivalist-300dpi-22.jpg?auto=format&fit=max&h=300&w=300" title="The Survivalist - Box Brown" align="left" style="margin:0 10px 10px 0;" />Day to day, Noah appears to lead a normal life. He works in a boring cubicle, in a boring office, surrounded by people that just ‘don’t get him’. However, as a regular listener to extreme conspiracy theorist Dick March's podcasts, Noah has built a fully functional underground bunker in the event that a supposedly “safe” passing-meteor collides with the Earth.
Unfortunately for most of the population, the conspiracy believers are proven right. The lone survivor of the cosmic catastrophe, Noah emerges completely blasé to the fall-out and destruction around him. With barely a second thought, he settles into a new life without work, without the man, and—most importantly—days full of pursuing his true passion: drawing comics.
Slowly growing sick of the monotony of being the supposed last man alive, Noah’s days of wine and irradiated roses grind to a halt when a mysterious female, Fatima, arrives on the scene. At first suspecting her to be a terrorist, a significant relationship blooms amongst the wreckage, forcing Noah, at long last, to genuinely connect with someone else.
<strong>42 pages | B&W | 29x21cm with flaps | £5.99</strong>The Survivalist - Box Brown - &pound;5.99Day to day, Noah appears to lead a normal life. He works in a boring cubicle, in a boring office, surrounded by people that just ‘don’t get him’. However, as a regular listener to extreme conspiracy theorist Dick March's podcasts, Noah has built a fully functional underground bunker in the event that a supposedly “safe” passing-meteor collides with the Earth.
Unfortunately for most of the population, the conspiracy believers are proven right. The lone survivor of the cosmic catastrophe, Noah emerges completely blasé to the fall-out and destruction around him. With barely a second thought, he settles into a new life without work, without the man, and—most importantly—days full of pursuing his true passion: drawing comics.
Slowly growing sick of the monotony of being the supposed last man alive, Noah’s days of wine and irradiated roses grind to a halt when a mysterious female, Fatima, arrives on the scene. At first suspecting her to be a terrorist, a significant relationship blooms amongst the wreckage, forcing Noah, at long last, to genuinely connect with someone else.
<strong>42 pages | B&W | 29x21cm with flaps | £5.99</strong>Dinopopolous - Nick Edwards - &pound;5.99http://blankslatebooks.bigcartel.com/product/dinopopolous-nick-edwards
http://blankslatebooks.bigcartel.com/product/dinopopolous-nick-edwardsWed, 03 Aug 2011 12:00:09 +0100<img src="http://images.bigcartel.com/product_images/41008931/5960396695_fa990495df_b.jpg?auto=format&fit=max&h=300&w=300" title="Dinopopolous - Nick Edwards" align="left" style="margin:0 10px 10px 0;" />Jurassic Park’s got nothing on Nick Edwards astonishing solo debut: one part bande dessinée adventure, one part video-game homage, all parts dinosaur-inspired.
Nigel is your average 13-year-old boy from Chipton. He loves reading fantasy/ sci-fi comics and playing video games, listening to heavy metal, and obsessive over his classmate Martha. Oh yeah, and he spends most of his time solving mysteries with his best friend Brian… a dinosaur with twin-mounted laser cannons on his back, naturally.
Called into action by moustachioed madman Lancaster Perrifold, Nigel and Brian are launched into the hunt for The Miracle Bird of Ndundoo: a mythical jewel-excreting creature living deep below the planet’s crust. Racing against the clock, the Jurassic duo must beat their nefarious adversaries, Julian and his Evil League of Lizards, to the mysterious ancient prize.
Combining out-and-out fun with insane metaphysical illustrations, Dinopoplous only further justifies the growing tower of praise that comics journalists and peers have piled atop Nick’s work.
Since winning The Cartoon Museum’s Under 30’s Young Cartoonist of the Year award in 2009, Nick’s continued to go from strength to strength, making it easy to see why he’s fast becoming one of the hottest stars in the new UK comics scene.
<em>Nick Edwards whips up some surreal maelstroms in his crowded battle scenes and sketch artwork. His wandering doodles erupt in planet-sized collages of awesome… It’s like his brain just churns out Where’s Waldo? Editions that were designed by Johnny Ryan and Salvador Dalí.</em> – Comics Alliance
<strong>Chalk Mark 4 | 285 x 211mm softcover with flaps | 26pp | B&W | ISBN 9781906653521</strong>Dinopopolous - Nick Edwards - &pound;5.99Jurassic Park’s got nothing on Nick Edwards astonishing solo debut: one part bande dessinée adventure, one part video-game homage, all parts dinosaur-inspired.
Nigel is your average 13-year-old boy from Chipton. He loves reading fantasy/ sci-fi comics and playing video games, listening to heavy metal, and obsessive over his classmate Martha. Oh yeah, and he spends most of his time solving mysteries with his best friend Brian… a dinosaur with twin-mounted laser cannons on his back, naturally.
Called into action by moustachioed madman Lancaster Perrifold, Nigel and Brian are launched into the hunt for The Miracle Bird of Ndundoo: a mythical jewel-excreting creature living deep below the planet’s crust. Racing against the clock, the Jurassic duo must beat their nefarious adversaries, Julian and his Evil League of Lizards, to the mysterious ancient prize.
Combining out-and-out fun with insane metaphysical illustrations, Dinopoplous only further justifies the growing tower of praise that comics journalists and peers have piled atop Nick’s work.
Since winning The Cartoon Museum’s Under 30’s Young Cartoonist of the Year award in 2009, Nick’s continued to go from strength to strength, making it easy to see why he’s fast becoming one of the hottest stars in the new UK comics scene.
<em>Nick Edwards whips up some surreal maelstroms in his crowded battle scenes and sketch artwork. His wandering doodles erupt in planet-sized collages of awesome… It’s like his brain just churns out Where’s Waldo? Editions that were designed by Johnny Ryan and Salvador Dalí.</em> – Comics Alliance
<strong>Chalk Mark 4 | 285 x 211mm softcover with flaps | 26pp | B&W | ISBN 9781906653521</strong>Hector Umbra - Uli Oesterle - &pound;18.99http://blankslatebooks.bigcartel.com/product/hector-umbra-uli-oesterle
http://blankslatebooks.bigcartel.com/product/hector-umbra-uli-oesterleWed, 02 Nov 2011 07:59:32 +0000<img src="http://images.bigcartel.com/product_images/50239981/Hector-Umbra-web.jpg?auto=format&fit=max&h=300&w=300" title="Hector Umbra - Uli Oesterle" align="left" style="margin:0 10px 10px 0;" />Munich, present day. Master DJ Osaka Best has disappeared, mysteriously vanishing in a flash of blinding light during the climax of his set at Robot Mitchum nightclub. Enter, Hector Umbra—Osaka’s best friend and artist-turned-detective—to solve the mystery of a lifetime.
61 hours, seven packs of cigarettes and countless phone calls later, Hector springs into action, turning over every dirty stone in Munich on the hunt for the displaced DJ. It soon transpires that all is not as it seems, and our hard-boiled painterly protagonist finds himself embroiled in a plot involving religious freaks, villainous Elvis impersonators, aliens and even the dead themselves.
The first of German creator Uli Oesterle’s long-form works to appear in English, Hector Umbra combines sci-fi, occult, noir and clubland influences in one explosive narrative. With a visual style reminiscent of Mike Mignola, English-speaking readers of all varieties are sure to fall in love with Oesterle’s work.
<strong>212 pp | Full-colour | Hardcover | ISBN 978-1-906653-16-3 | £18.99</strong>Hector Umbra - Uli Oesterle - &pound;18.99Munich, present day. Master DJ Osaka Best has disappeared, mysteriously vanishing in a flash of blinding light during the climax of his set at Robot Mitchum nightclub. Enter, Hector Umbra—Osaka’s best friend and artist-turned-detective—to solve the mystery of a lifetime.
61 hours, seven packs of cigarettes and countless phone calls later, Hector springs into action, turning over every dirty stone in Munich on the hunt for the displaced DJ. It soon transpires that all is not as it seems, and our hard-boiled painterly protagonist finds himself embroiled in a plot involving religious freaks, villainous Elvis impersonators, aliens and even the dead themselves.
The first of German creator Uli Oesterle’s long-form works to appear in English, Hector Umbra combines sci-fi, occult, noir and clubland influences in one explosive narrative. With a visual style reminiscent of Mike Mignola, English-speaking readers of all varieties are sure to fall in love with Oesterle’s work.
<strong>212 pp | Full-colour | Hardcover | ISBN 978-1-906653-16-3 | £18.99</strong>Nelson - Limited Edition Hardcover - &pound;24.99http://blankslatebooks.bigcartel.com/product/nelson-hardcover-blank-slate-store-exclusive
http://blankslatebooks.bigcartel.com/product/nelson-hardcover-blank-slate-store-exclusiveWed, 31 Aug 2011 06:03:14 +0100<img src="http://images.bigcartel.com/product_images/42578441/nelsoncovernoShelWeb.jpg?auto=format&fit=max&h=300&w=300" title="Nelson - Limited Edition Hardcover" align="left" style="margin:0 10px 10px 0;" />BLANK SLATE STORE EXCLUSIVE
Nelson is a 250-page collaboration between 54 of the UK’s most exciting comic creators. It is an unprecedented experiment to create one complete story – a collective graphic novel.
London, 1968. A daughter is born to Jim and Rita Baker. Her name is Nel. This is her story, told in yearly snapshots. Each chapter records the events of a single day, weaving one continuous ribbon of pictures and text that takes us on a 43- year journey from Nel Baker’s birth to 2011.
Based on an original idea by Rob Davis and co-edited by Davis and Woodrow Phoenix, Nelson celebrates the incredible diversity of talent in British comics today. Creators known for their editorial and national newspaper strips unite with those from humour comics such as the Beano, The Dandy, and MAD Magazine joining a wealth of talent from children’s books, indie publishing and webcomics, with the science fiction and superhero worlds of 2000AD, Marvel, DC, and Dark Horse.
Part exquisite corpse and part relay race, Nelson spans decades of British history and a myriad of stylistic approaches in telling the story of one woman’s life by 54 creators, in 54 episodes, detailing 54 days. The result is a surprising and compellingly readable book that is sad, funny, moving, poignant, ridiculous, heartfelt, and real. This is a story like none you have seen before.
<strong>252 pages | 236 x 178mm hardcover, full colour | £24.99</strong>Nelson - Limited Edition Hardcover - &pound;24.99BLANK SLATE STORE EXCLUSIVE
Nelson is a 250-page collaboration between 54 of the UK’s most exciting comic creators. It is an unprecedented experiment to create one complete story – a collective graphic novel.
London, 1968. A daughter is born to Jim and Rita Baker. Her name is Nel. This is her story, told in yearly snapshots. Each chapter records the events of a single day, weaving one continuous ribbon of pictures and text that takes us on a 43- year journey from Nel Baker’s birth to 2011.
Based on an original idea by Rob Davis and co-edited by Davis and Woodrow Phoenix, Nelson celebrates the incredible diversity of talent in British comics today. Creators known for their editorial and national newspaper strips unite with those from humour comics such as the Beano, The Dandy, and MAD Magazine joining a wealth of talent from children’s books, indie publishing and webcomics, with the science fiction and superhero worlds of 2000AD, Marvel, DC, and Dark Horse.
Part exquisite corpse and part relay race, Nelson spans decades of British history and a myriad of stylistic approaches in telling the story of one woman’s life by 54 creators, in 54 episodes, detailing 54 days. The result is a surprising and compellingly readable book that is sad, funny, moving, poignant, ridiculous, heartfelt, and real. This is a story like none you have seen before.
<strong>252 pages | 236 x 178mm hardcover, full colour | £24.99</strong>Nelson - edited by Rob Davis & Woodrow Phoenix - &pound;18.99http://blankslatebooks.bigcartel.com/product/nelson-various-artists
http://blankslatebooks.bigcartel.com/product/nelson-various-artistsWed, 31 Aug 2011 05:59:18 +0100<img src="http://images.bigcartel.com/product_images/149609842/389-1-regular.png?auto=format&fit=max&h=300&w=300" title="Nelson - edited by Rob Davis & Woodrow Phoenix" align="left" style="margin:0 10px 10px 0;" />Nelson is a 250-page collaboration between 54 of the UK’s most exciting comic creators. It is an unprecedented experiment to create one complete story – a collective graphic novel.
London, 1968. A daughter is born to Jim and Rita Baker. Her name is Nel. This is her story, told in yearly snapshots. Each chapter records the events of a single day, weaving one continuous ribbon of pictures and text that takes us on a 43- year journey from Nel Baker’s birth to 2011.
Based on an original idea by Rob Davis and co-edited by Davis and Woodrow Phoenix, Nelson celebrates the incredible diversity of talent in British comics today. Creators known for their editorial and national newspaper strips unite with those from humour comics such as the Beano, The Dandy, and MAD Magazine joining a wealth of talent from children’s books, indie publishing and webcomics, with the science fiction and superhero worlds of 2000AD, Marvel, DC, and Dark Horse.
Part exquisite corpse and part relay race, Nelson spans decades of British history and a myriad of stylistic approaches in telling the story of one woman’s life by 54 creators, in 54 episodes, detailing 54 days. The result is a surprising and compellingly readable book that is sad, funny, moving, poignant, ridiculous, heartfelt, and real. This is a story like none you have seen before.
Profits from the initial run of this book went to Shelter, the housing and homelessness charity.
<strong>ISBN 978-1-906653-23-1 | 252 pages | 236 x 178mm softcover with flaps, full colour | £18.99 / £22.99</strong>Nelson - edited by Rob Davis & Woodrow Phoenix - &pound;18.99Nelson is a 250-page collaboration between 54 of the UK’s most exciting comic creators. It is an unprecedented experiment to create one complete story – a collective graphic novel.
London, 1968. A daughter is born to Jim and Rita Baker. Her name is Nel. This is her story, told in yearly snapshots. Each chapter records the events of a single day, weaving one continuous ribbon of pictures and text that takes us on a 43- year journey from Nel Baker’s birth to 2011.
Based on an original idea by Rob Davis and co-edited by Davis and Woodrow Phoenix, Nelson celebrates the incredible diversity of talent in British comics today. Creators known for their editorial and national newspaper strips unite with those from humour comics such as the Beano, The Dandy, and MAD Magazine joining a wealth of talent from children’s books, indie publishing and webcomics, with the science fiction and superhero worlds of 2000AD, Marvel, DC, and Dark Horse.
Part exquisite corpse and part relay race, Nelson spans decades of British history and a myriad of stylistic approaches in telling the story of one woman’s life by 54 creators, in 54 episodes, detailing 54 days. The result is a surprising and compellingly readable book that is sad, funny, moving, poignant, ridiculous, heartfelt, and real. This is a story like none you have seen before.
Profits from the initial run of this book went to Shelter, the housing and homelessness charity.
<strong>ISBN 978-1-906653-23-1 | 252 pages | 236 x 178mm softcover with flaps, full colour | £18.99 / £22.99</strong>A Long Day of Mr. James-Teacher - HARVEYJAMES - &pound;5.99http://blankslatebooks.bigcartel.com/product/a-long-day-of-mr-james-teacher-harveyjames
http://blankslatebooks.bigcartel.com/product/a-long-day-of-mr-james-teacher-harveyjamesWed, 03 Aug 2011 12:50:44 +0100<img src="http://images.bigcartel.com/product_images/41009467/5974229880_9ff9229f1e_b.jpg?auto=format&fit=max&h=300&w=300" title="A Long Day of Mr. James-Teacher - HARVEYJAMES" align="left" style="margin:0 10px 10px 0;" /><em>In 2008, I, being a young man of 25 years of age, went to South Korea to reach English to elementary school students. They were the six most eventful and enjoyable months of my life – I was constantly inspired, and formed bonds and friendships that will last forever. I climbed mountains! I hopped fences! I love, lost, fought and won battles! Here’s a comic I drew about a day where it rained.</em> – HARVEYJAMES
A brief snapshot of HARVEYJAMES’ time in Korea, A Long Day of Mr. James-Teacher encapsulates the highs and lows of his life as an English teacher. The poster-child for the new wave of manga-inspired artists adapting those styles to their own ends, James exhibits astounding craft in his depiction of one particularly grim day.
Attracting praise in its original limited-edition self-published run for its breath-taking fluid art style and emotional range, this deluxe Chalk Marks edition adds all-new work and a couple of extra surprises for readers.
<em>“This spindly English anime nerd has springboarded off his love of Japanese cartoons into something new and beautiful. His linework and sense of volume comes purely from Japanese animation but he’s deconstructed the style and rebuilt it to express big ideas and deep feelings.“</em> – Nick Gazin, Vice Magazine
<strong>Chalk Mark 5 | 285 x 211mm softcover with flaps | 28pp | B&W | ISBN 9781906653538</strong>A Long Day of Mr. James-Teacher - HARVEYJAMES - &pound;5.99<em>In 2008, I, being a young man of 25 years of age, went to South Korea to reach English to elementary school students. They were the six most eventful and enjoyable months of my life – I was constantly inspired, and formed bonds and friendships that will last forever. I climbed mountains! I hopped fences! I love, lost, fought and won battles! Here’s a comic I drew about a day where it rained.</em> – HARVEYJAMES
A brief snapshot of HARVEYJAMES’ time in Korea, A Long Day of Mr. James-Teacher encapsulates the highs and lows of his life as an English teacher. The poster-child for the new wave of manga-inspired artists adapting those styles to their own ends, James exhibits astounding craft in his depiction of one particularly grim day.
Attracting praise in its original limited-edition self-published run for its breath-taking fluid art style and emotional range, this deluxe Chalk Marks edition adds all-new work and a couple of extra surprises for readers.
<em>“This spindly English anime nerd has springboarded off his love of Japanese cartoons into something new and beautiful. His linework and sense of volume comes purely from Japanese animation but he’s deconstructed the style and rebuilt it to express big ideas and deep feelings.“</em> – Nick Gazin, Vice Magazine
<strong>Chalk Mark 5 | 285 x 211mm softcover with flaps | 28pp | B&W | ISBN 9781906653538</strong>My Skateboard Life - Ed Syder - &pound;8.99http://blankslatebooks.bigcartel.com/product/my-skateboard-life-ed-syder
http://blankslatebooks.bigcartel.com/product/my-skateboard-life-ed-syderFri, 03 Sep 2010 10:24:47 +0100<img src="http://images.bigcartel.com/product_images/26374175/MSLcover.jpg?auto=format&fit=max&h=300&w=300" title="My Skateboard Life - Ed Syder" align="left" style="margin:0 10px 10px 0;" />Growing up in the Cornwall skate scene of the 1980s and 1990s, Ed Syder details the thrills, spills, romance, excitement, and obsession of a sport that, for those involved, defined a generation worldwide.
For anyone who ever puzzled over the axel width of their trucks or oogled board designs in a skate shop, Ed recalls the teen anxiety of not having the coolest equipment as a beginner, the epoch-changing shift from vert skating to street skating, and how things just got weird when there were girls at the skate park. Also features mini-interviews with classic skateboarders Steve Steadham (of Bones Brigade fame) and Jeff Hedges.
Visually-inspired by the board graphics that Ed still drools over to this day, My Skateboard Life stays true to skating’s punk roots with a zine-like presentation that’s both honest and celebratory. Illustrated in the distinctive high-impact black and white style that made him a star in the Manchester music poster scene, there’s no better way to relive falling in love with skateboarding all over again.
<strong>ISBN 9781906653095
Softcover with flaps - 100 pages - B&W </strong>My Skateboard Life - Ed Syder - &pound;8.99Growing up in the Cornwall skate scene of the 1980s and 1990s, Ed Syder details the thrills, spills, romance, excitement, and obsession of a sport that, for those involved, defined a generation worldwide.
For anyone who ever puzzled over the axel width of their trucks or oogled board designs in a skate shop, Ed recalls the teen anxiety of not having the coolest equipment as a beginner, the epoch-changing shift from vert skating to street skating, and how things just got weird when there were girls at the skate park. Also features mini-interviews with classic skateboarders Steve Steadham (of Bones Brigade fame) and Jeff Hedges.
Visually-inspired by the board graphics that Ed still drools over to this day, My Skateboard Life stays true to skating’s punk roots with a zine-like presentation that’s both honest and celebratory. Illustrated in the distinctive high-impact black and white style that made him a star in the Manchester music poster scene, there’s no better way to relive falling in love with skateboarding all over again.
<strong>ISBN 9781906653095
Softcover with flaps - 100 pages - B&W </strong>The Accidental Salad - Joe Decie - &pound;5.99http://blankslatebooks.bigcartel.com/product/the-accidental-salad-joe-decie
http://blankslatebooks.bigcartel.com/product/the-accidental-salad-joe-decieThu, 26 May 2011 21:04:19 +0100<img src="http://images.bigcartel.com/product_images/37239428/Salad-cover-600pxw.jpg?auto=format&fit=max&h=300&w=300" title="The Accidental Salad - Joe Decie" align="left" style="margin:0 10px 10px 0;" />Life seen through a lens of thought provoking absurdism.
Chalk Marks is Blank Slate’s new line allowing a large format space for new UK comic artists to produce their first commercial works.
In this first issue Joe Decie gives us his beautifully ink washed stories of the apparently everyday, with a twist in the tail. Ever wonder what the portent of that eyeless Bart Simpson doll at the boot sale was? Or how demons can possess your pictures during scanning? Joe reveals all. Joe Decie’s work has long been featured on Top Shelf 2.0.
<em>“Do you know about Joe Decie? I do! His (comics are) G.O.R.G.E.O.U.S., all ink washes and chunky nib lines. I love them, & the way he shows little portions of his life is really tasteful, true to life without ever being dull.”</em>
- Dustin Harbin author of Dharbin! webcomic
<em>“Read one of Joe Decie’s comics and you’ll ﬁnd they don’t demand you to keep reading so much as politely ask if you wouldn’t mind continuing, perhaps you’d also like this next one as well. The fact that they’re charmingly drawn and full of understated humour and sensitivity makes it all the harder not to keep reading, and liking them.”</em>
- Jeffrey Brown author ‘Clumsy’ and ‘Little Things’
<strong>ISBN 978-1-906653-50-7
Softcover with flaps – 40 pages – B&W – Published May 2011
Chalk Mark 1</strong>The Accidental Salad - Joe Decie - &pound;5.99Life seen through a lens of thought provoking absurdism.
Chalk Marks is Blank Slate’s new line allowing a large format space for new UK comic artists to produce their first commercial works.
In this first issue Joe Decie gives us his beautifully ink washed stories of the apparently everyday, with a twist in the tail. Ever wonder what the portent of that eyeless Bart Simpson doll at the boot sale was? Or how demons can possess your pictures during scanning? Joe reveals all. Joe Decie’s work has long been featured on Top Shelf 2.0.
<em>“Do you know about Joe Decie? I do! His (comics are) G.O.R.G.E.O.U.S., all ink washes and chunky nib lines. I love them, & the way he shows little portions of his life is really tasteful, true to life without ever being dull.”</em>
- Dustin Harbin author of Dharbin! webcomic
<em>“Read one of Joe Decie’s comics and you’ll ﬁnd they don’t demand you to keep reading so much as politely ask if you wouldn’t mind continuing, perhaps you’d also like this next one as well. The fact that they’re charmingly drawn and full of understated humour and sensitivity makes it all the harder not to keep reading, and liking them.”</em>
- Jeffrey Brown author ‘Clumsy’ and ‘Little Things’
<strong>ISBN 978-1-906653-50-7
Softcover with flaps – 40 pages – B&W – Published May 2011
Chalk Mark 1</strong>The Band - Mawil - &pound;8.99http://blankslatebooks.bigcartel.com/product/the-band-mawil
http://blankslatebooks.bigcartel.com/product/the-band-mawilTue, 21 Jun 2011 15:29:33 +0100<img src="http://images.bigcartel.com/product_images/38645077/TheBand-cover-600pxw.jpg?auto=format&fit=max&h=300&w=300" title="The Band - Mawil" align="left" style="margin:0 10px 10px 0;" /><em>“So you want to be a rock and roll star? / Then listen now to what I say
Just get an electric guitar / Then take some time and learn how to play
And with your hair swung right / And your pants too tight, it’s gonna be all right…”</em>
- ’So You Want To Be A Rock n Roll Star’ by The Byrds
Crash, pling, TWANG – the unruly sounds of a new band are slowly melded into a tight unit that can slay any audience. Well, at least in the school gym or church meeting hall. Watch as Mawil relives his experiences in search of Rock stardom – always just a fingernail out of reach. Witness as girls crowd round, the perfect sound is striven for and ‘white label’ guitars become the instruments to die for. A delightful trip through schoolday dreams, enduring friendships and the search for that golden moment of inspiration…
<em>“(The Band is) one of the most beautiful German comics out there”</em>
- Spiegel Online
<em>“…You can’t do anything but enjoy The Band. Mawil knows how to get across his story with clever drawings that transport the readers into the band members’ shoes.”</em>
- Splash Comics Germany
<strong>ISBN 978-1-906653-15-6
Softcover with flaps – B&W – Published May 2011
Slate 14</strong>The Band - Mawil - &pound;8.99<em>“So you want to be a rock and roll star? / Then listen now to what I say
Just get an electric guitar / Then take some time and learn how to play
And with your hair swung right / And your pants too tight, it’s gonna be all right…”</em>
- ’So You Want To Be A Rock n Roll Star’ by The Byrds
Crash, pling, TWANG – the unruly sounds of a new band are slowly melded into a tight unit that can slay any audience. Well, at least in the school gym or church meeting hall. Watch as Mawil relives his experiences in search of Rock stardom – always just a fingernail out of reach. Witness as girls crowd round, the perfect sound is striven for and ‘white label’ guitars become the instruments to die for. A delightful trip through schoolday dreams, enduring friendships and the search for that golden moment of inspiration…
<em>“(The Band is) one of the most beautiful German comics out there”</em>
- Spiegel Online
<em>“…You can’t do anything but enjoy The Band. Mawil knows how to get across his story with clever drawings that transport the readers into the band members’ shoes.”</em>
- Splash Comics Germany
<strong>ISBN 978-1-906653-15-6
Softcover with flaps – B&W – Published May 2011
Slate 14</strong>Home and Away - Mawil - &pound;11.99http://blankslatebooks.bigcartel.com/product/home-and-away-mawil
http://blankslatebooks.bigcartel.com/product/home-and-away-mawilTue, 21 Jun 2011 15:18:24 +0100<img src="http://images.bigcartel.com/product_images/38644711/HAA-cover-600pxw.jpg?auto=format&fit=max&h=300&w=300" title="Home and Away - Mawil" align="left" style="margin:0 10px 10px 0;" />In this collection of short stories Mawil takes us through his early years growing up in East Berlin and the changes that have occurred since the Wall came down. See him fight video-game addiction and strive to improve his first car, a much loved but clunky Skoda. Watch as he discovers what the life of a graffiti artist is like when you fail to keep one step ahead of the law. when you fail to keep one step ahead of the law. In the longest strip, ‘Welcome Home’, see Mawil and his new found friends head out on a summer holiday with more than a passing eye for Hippy chicks and their daily naked Yoga routines.
Packed with Mawil’s amazing art and always sweet and funny, this is the first time any of Mawil’s colour work has appeared in English.
<em>“Beautiful cartooning that captures the energy, awkward-ness and freedom of youth.”</em>
- Joe Matt author ‘Peepshow’ and ‘Spent’
<em>“I love Mawil’s warm, lively cartooning. Utterly real, funny and adorable. I want to steal his secrets!”</em>
- Scott McCloud author ‘Understanding Comics’
<strong>ISBN 978-1-906653-22-4
Softcover with flaps – Colour & B&W – Published May 2011
Slate 21</strong>Home and Away - Mawil - &pound;11.99In this collection of short stories Mawil takes us through his early years growing up in East Berlin and the changes that have occurred since the Wall came down. See him fight video-game addiction and strive to improve his first car, a much loved but clunky Skoda. Watch as he discovers what the life of a graffiti artist is like when you fail to keep one step ahead of the law. when you fail to keep one step ahead of the law. In the longest strip, ‘Welcome Home’, see Mawil and his new found friends head out on a summer holiday with more than a passing eye for Hippy chicks and their daily naked Yoga routines.
Packed with Mawil’s amazing art and always sweet and funny, this is the first time any of Mawil’s colour work has appeared in English.
<em>“Beautiful cartooning that captures the energy, awkward-ness and freedom of youth.”</em>
- Joe Matt author ‘Peepshow’ and ‘Spent’
<em>“I love Mawil’s warm, lively cartooning. Utterly real, funny and adorable. I want to steal his secrets!”</em>
- Scott McCloud author ‘Understanding Comics’
<strong>ISBN 978-1-906653-22-4
Softcover with flaps – Colour & B&W – Published May 2011
Slate 21</strong>Luchadoras - Peggy Adam - &pound;12.99http://blankslatebooks.bigcartel.com/product/luchadoras-peggy-adam
http://blankslatebooks.bigcartel.com/product/luchadoras-peggy-adamTue, 15 Mar 2011 08:36:09 +0000<img src="http://images.bigcartel.com/product_images/33301000/Luchadoras-600pxw.jpg?auto=format&fit=max&h=300&w=300" title="Luchadoras - Peggy Adam" align="left" style="margin:0 10px 10px 0;" /><em>Recommended for Mature Readers.</em>
<em>Chosen as part of the 2007 Sélection Officielle at the Angouléme International Comics Festival.
</em>
Since 1993, a grievous shadow has been cast over the Mexican border-city of Juárez. A tragic symbol of misogynist violence, Cuidad Juárez has been the scene of hundreds of feminicidios —the abduction and brutal murders of female victims aged between 12 and 22.
Referred to as 'Las Muertas de Juárez', many of these victims are found tortured, sexually abused, or disfigured - senseless atrocities that have caught international attention. With many of these cases still unresolved, some sources suggest the number of victims may even reach into the thousands.
It is in this harrowing real setting that we are introduced to Alma, a woman courageously attempting to escape her abusive gang-member fiancé. Following a violent altercation, she flees in the night, cementing her vow to never return by beginning a new relationship with a considerate stranger.
In this story of survival by any means necessary, <a href="http://www.blankslatebooks.co.uk/artist-profiles/peggy-adam/">Peggy Adam</a> explores the complex issues surrounding the murders through the humanity of her characters. Truly a graphic novel of substance, <strong>Luchadoras</strong> asks the reader to consider where exactly the extents of morality lie in a corrupt society.
<em>“Peggy Adam portrays her story with stylistic and narrative sobriety. The setting is very real, and we wouldn't have been surprised if the story itself had had been too, as it is so accurately told…” </em>
-Baptiste Gilleron, ActuaBD
<strong> ISBN 9781906653125
Softcover with flaps - 97 pages - B&amp;W - Published April 2011
Slate 11
</strong>Luchadoras - Peggy Adam - &pound;12.99<em>Recommended for Mature Readers.</em>
<em>Chosen as part of the 2007 Sélection Officielle at the Angouléme International Comics Festival.
</em>
Since 1993, a grievous shadow has been cast over the Mexican border-city of Juárez. A tragic symbol of misogynist violence, Cuidad Juárez has been the scene of hundreds of feminicidios —the abduction and brutal murders of female victims aged between 12 and 22.
Referred to as 'Las Muertas de Juárez', many of these victims are found tortured, sexually abused, or disfigured - senseless atrocities that have caught international attention. With many of these cases still unresolved, some sources suggest the number of victims may even reach into the thousands.
It is in this harrowing real setting that we are introduced to Alma, a woman courageously attempting to escape her abusive gang-member fiancé. Following a violent altercation, she flees in the night, cementing her vow to never return by beginning a new relationship with a considerate stranger.
In this story of survival by any means necessary, <a href="http://www.blankslatebooks.co.uk/artist-profiles/peggy-adam/">Peggy Adam</a> explores the complex issues surrounding the murders through the humanity of her characters. Truly a graphic novel of substance, <strong>Luchadoras</strong> asks the reader to consider where exactly the extents of morality lie in a corrupt society.
<em>“Peggy Adam portrays her story with stylistic and narrative sobriety. The setting is very real, and we wouldn't have been surprised if the story itself had had been too, as it is so accurately told…” </em>
-Baptiste Gilleron, ActuaBD
<strong> ISBN 9781906653125
Softcover with flaps - 97 pages - B&amp;W - Published April 2011
Slate 11
</strong>The Girl And The Gorilla - Madeleine Flores - &pound;7.99http://blankslatebooks.bigcartel.com/product/the-girl-and-the-gorilla-madeleine-flores
http://blankslatebooks.bigcartel.com/product/the-girl-and-the-gorilla-madeleine-floresFri, 03 Dec 2010 09:43:17 +0000<img src="http://images.bigcartel.com/product_images/28813193/TGATGcover.jpg?auto=format&fit=max&h=300&w=300" title="The Girl And The Gorilla - Madeleine Flores" align="left" style="margin:0 10px 10px 0;" />Aurelie is having a rough day. But her foul mood is quickly forgotten when she crosses paths with a Gorilla. Her day only gets more interesting from there! A chat with historical characters, a hunter who takes her under his wing and a forest of unusual residents. What else will she encounter? And who will save the day?
This is a first Graphic Novel work from the author and delves into how much our world would suffer through the lack of hope and creativity. It is an all ages book perfectly suitable for children of reading age and up.
Softcover - 100 pages - B&W - Published November 2010
Slate 9The Girl And The Gorilla - Madeleine Flores - &pound;7.99Aurelie is having a rough day. But her foul mood is quickly forgotten when she crosses paths with a Gorilla. Her day only gets more interesting from there! A chat with historical characters, a hunter who takes her under his wing and a forest of unusual residents. What else will she encounter? And who will save the day?
This is a first Graphic Novel work from the author and delves into how much our world would suffer through the lack of hope and creativity. It is an all ages book perfectly suitable for children of reading age and up.
Softcover - 100 pages - B&W - Published November 2010
Slate 9Sleepyheads - Randall C - Hardcover Version - &pound;17.99http://blankslatebooks.bigcartel.com/product/sleepyheads-randall-c-hardcover-version
http://blankslatebooks.bigcartel.com/product/sleepyheads-randall-c-hardcover-versionTue, 26 Oct 2010 14:46:50 +0100<img src="http://images.bigcartel.com/product_images/28813089/Sleepyheads-Cover.jpg?auto=format&fit=max&h=300&w=300" title="Sleepyheads - Randall C - Hardcover Version" align="left" style="margin:0 10px 10px 0;" />Randall C's Sleepyhead was a multiple award winner in Europe when released back in 2007. It's a dazzling book which has a lovely, lazy, dreamlike feel which draws you into the majesty of the art. This is a tour-de-force in comics storytelling which produces a book full of philosophy, absurdism, fantasy elements, love and self discovery - plus some of the best drawn whales you'll ever see.
The Comics Journal says of it:
<em>"Randall C.’s stories are a Chinese puzzle box of which Neil Gaiman even would lose track of the pieces. He excels at metaphoric storytelling jumps, literally letting the characters dive into their own stories and incorporating that story into the main storyline where borders between dreams, stories and reality blur into one whole beautiful cuddle. All of this is accentuated with meanderings on life and love, wrapped in allegory, metaphor and playful language.
Randall C.’s linework is a beauty to behold. The lines swerve over the pages, encapsulating characters, fore- and backgrounds in one fell swoop. The muddy earth and pastel colours seem applied by a mad midget who loves to fingerpaint outside of the lines. This only adds to the surreal visuals and storyline though. Everything works together to enforce the dreamlike occurrences that the protagonists float through.
Blank Slate chose to reprint Sleepyheads at the same size as the Dutch edition meaning that it is a beautiful hard- and soft cover oversized book (well , oversized if you take US comics as the norm). Together with Drawn &amp; Quarterly’s release of Brecht Evens’ The Wrong Place, this will be one of the must-have books of the year. Highly recommended!"</em>
- Bart Croonenborghs
Hardcover - Colour - Published November 2010
Slate 5Sleepyheads - Randall C - Hardcover Version - &pound;17.99Randall C's Sleepyhead was a multiple award winner in Europe when released back in 2007. It's a dazzling book which has a lovely, lazy, dreamlike feel which draws you into the majesty of the art. This is a tour-de-force in comics storytelling which produces a book full of philosophy, absurdism, fantasy elements, love and self discovery - plus some of the best drawn whales you'll ever see.
The Comics Journal says of it:
<em>"Randall C.’s stories are a Chinese puzzle box of which Neil Gaiman even would lose track of the pieces. He excels at metaphoric storytelling jumps, literally letting the characters dive into their own stories and incorporating that story into the main storyline where borders between dreams, stories and reality blur into one whole beautiful cuddle. All of this is accentuated with meanderings on life and love, wrapped in allegory, metaphor and playful language.
Randall C.’s linework is a beauty to behold. The lines swerve over the pages, encapsulating characters, fore- and backgrounds in one fell swoop. The muddy earth and pastel colours seem applied by a mad midget who loves to fingerpaint outside of the lines. This only adds to the surreal visuals and storyline though. Everything works together to enforce the dreamlike occurrences that the protagonists float through.
Blank Slate chose to reprint Sleepyheads at the same size as the Dutch edition meaning that it is a beautiful hard- and soft cover oversized book (well , oversized if you take US comics as the norm). Together with Drawn &amp; Quarterly’s release of Brecht Evens’ The Wrong Place, this will be one of the must-have books of the year. Highly recommended!"</em>
- Bart Croonenborghs
Hardcover - Colour - Published November 2010
Slate 5Sleepyheads - Randall C - &pound;13.99http://blankslatebooks.bigcartel.com/product/sleepyheads-randall-c
http://blankslatebooks.bigcartel.com/product/sleepyheads-randall-cFri, 03 Dec 2010 09:40:11 +0000<img src="http://images.bigcartel.com/product_images/28813145/Sleepyheads-Cover.jpg?auto=format&fit=max&h=300&w=300" title="Sleepyheads - Randall C" align="left" style="margin:0 10px 10px 0;" />Randall C's Sleepyhead was a multiple award winner in Europe when released back in 2007. It's a dazzling book which has a lovely, lazy, dreamlike feel which draws you into the majesty of the art. This is a tour-de-force in comics storytelling which produces a book full of philosophy, absurdism, fantasy elements, love and self discovery - plus some of the best drawn whales you'll ever see.
The Comics Journal says of it:
<em>"Randall C.’s stories are a Chinese puzzle box of which Neil Gaiman even would lose track of the pieces. He excels at metaphoric storytelling jumps, literally letting the characters dive into their own stories and incorporating that story into the main storyline where borders between dreams, stories and reality blur into one whole beautiful cuddle. All of this is accentuated with meanderings on life and love, wrapped in allegory, metaphor and playful language.
Randall C.’s linework is a beauty to behold. The lines swerve over the pages, encapsulating characters, fore- and backgrounds in one fell swoop. The muddy earth and pastel colours seem applied by a mad midget who loves to fingerpaint outside of the lines. This only adds to the surreal visuals and storyline though. Everything works together to enforce the dreamlike occurrences that the protagonists float through.
Blank Slate chose to reprint Sleepyheads at the same size as the Dutch edition meaning that it is a beautiful hard- and soft cover oversized book (well, oversized if you take US comics as the norm). Together with Drawn &amp; Quarterly’s release of Brecht Evens’ The Wrong Place, this will be one of the must-have books of the year. Highly recommended!"</em>
- Bart Croonenborghs
Softcover - Colour - Published November 2010
Slate 5Sleepyheads - Randall C - &pound;13.99Randall C's Sleepyhead was a multiple award winner in Europe when released back in 2007. It's a dazzling book which has a lovely, lazy, dreamlike feel which draws you into the majesty of the art. This is a tour-de-force in comics storytelling which produces a book full of philosophy, absurdism, fantasy elements, love and self discovery - plus some of the best drawn whales you'll ever see.
The Comics Journal says of it:
<em>"Randall C.’s stories are a Chinese puzzle box of which Neil Gaiman even would lose track of the pieces. He excels at metaphoric storytelling jumps, literally letting the characters dive into their own stories and incorporating that story into the main storyline where borders between dreams, stories and reality blur into one whole beautiful cuddle. All of this is accentuated with meanderings on life and love, wrapped in allegory, metaphor and playful language.
Randall C.’s linework is a beauty to behold. The lines swerve over the pages, encapsulating characters, fore- and backgrounds in one fell swoop. The muddy earth and pastel colours seem applied by a mad midget who loves to fingerpaint outside of the lines. This only adds to the surreal visuals and storyline though. Everything works together to enforce the dreamlike occurrences that the protagonists float through.
Blank Slate chose to reprint Sleepyheads at the same size as the Dutch edition meaning that it is a beautiful hard- and soft cover oversized book (well, oversized if you take US comics as the norm). Together with Drawn &amp; Quarterly’s release of Brecht Evens’ The Wrong Place, this will be one of the must-have books of the year. Highly recommended!"</em>
- Bart Croonenborghs
Softcover - Colour - Published November 2010
Slate 5Berlin And That - Oliver East - &pound;14.99http://blankslatebooks.bigcartel.com/product/berlin-and-that-oliver-east
http://blankslatebooks.bigcartel.com/product/berlin-and-that-oliver-eastFri, 03 Sep 2010 10:28:29 +0100<img src="http://images.bigcartel.com/product_images/26687810/BAT-cover.jpg?auto=format&fit=max&h=300&w=300" title="Berlin And That - Oliver East" align="left" style="margin:0 10px 10px 0;" />East has made the act of walking the starting point for a practice that ends as a comic book.
Berlin and That is his third book in the series Trains Are…Mint; it sees the artist walking from Berlin’s Alexanderplatz to Frankfurt (Oder) on the Polish border, keeping as close to the train line as he can without trespassing. From memory the journey is then documented with each A3 page being exquisitely rendered in ink and watercolour, recording the mundane and ordinary, the beautiful and extraordinary. For this project Oliver then gave one page each to his friends, artists and non-artists, musicians and pro-drinkers alike, to alter as they please - a total of 52 people collaborated on the book.
Contributing Artists include: Scott Alexander, Gareth Brookes, Chris Butler, Stanley Chow, David Cochrane, Rachael Davies, Joe Devlin, Jenny Discombe, Malcy Duff, Nick Dunn, Clare East, Stuart Edmundson, Dave Garner, Andrew Gannon, Guy Garvey, Annie Gibson, Pete Gilfellon, Tony Gilfellon, Andy Glynn, Liam Guy, Andy Hargreaves, Matthew Houlding, Dean Hughes, Steve Hunt, Emma Jay, Pete Jobson, Karen Jupp, Mia Kiuru, Stuart Kolakovic, Laurence Lane, Gavin Macdonald, David Mackintosh, Steve Manford, Jim Medway, Miquel Navarro, Darren Newman, James O'Hara, Natalie O'Hara, Lee Patterson, Katie Popperwell, David Price, Magnus Quaife, Maeve Rendle, Jarek Salata, Katel Sevellec, Richard Shields, Sarah Thompson, Chris Thorpe, Steven Tillotson, Daniella Watson, Graham Watson, Jo-anne Wright and Emma Unsworth.
"...<em>East has produced a great, affecting, thought-provoking book. A worthy successor to Trains Are… Mint</em>,"
Stephen Betts on <em>Proper Go Well High</em> on the Comics Influx site.
ISBN 9781906653071
Hardcover - 168 pages - Colour - Published April 2010
Slate 7Berlin And That - Oliver East - &pound;14.99East has made the act of walking the starting point for a practice that ends as a comic book.
Berlin and That is his third book in the series Trains Are…Mint; it sees the artist walking from Berlin’s Alexanderplatz to Frankfurt (Oder) on the Polish border, keeping as close to the train line as he can without trespassing. From memory the journey is then documented with each A3 page being exquisitely rendered in ink and watercolour, recording the mundane and ordinary, the beautiful and extraordinary. For this project Oliver then gave one page each to his friends, artists and non-artists, musicians and pro-drinkers alike, to alter as they please - a total of 52 people collaborated on the book.
Contributing Artists include: Scott Alexander, Gareth Brookes, Chris Butler, Stanley Chow, David Cochrane, Rachael Davies, Joe Devlin, Jenny Discombe, Malcy Duff, Nick Dunn, Clare East, Stuart Edmundson, Dave Garner, Andrew Gannon, Guy Garvey, Annie Gibson, Pete Gilfellon, Tony Gilfellon, Andy Glynn, Liam Guy, Andy Hargreaves, Matthew Houlding, Dean Hughes, Steve Hunt, Emma Jay, Pete Jobson, Karen Jupp, Mia Kiuru, Stuart Kolakovic, Laurence Lane, Gavin Macdonald, David Mackintosh, Steve Manford, Jim Medway, Miquel Navarro, Darren Newman, James O'Hara, Natalie O'Hara, Lee Patterson, Katie Popperwell, David Price, Magnus Quaife, Maeve Rendle, Jarek Salata, Katel Sevellec, Richard Shields, Sarah Thompson, Chris Thorpe, Steven Tillotson, Daniella Watson, Graham Watson, Jo-anne Wright and Emma Unsworth.
"...<em>East has produced a great, affecting, thought-provoking book. A worthy successor to Trains Are… Mint</em>,"
Stephen Betts on <em>Proper Go Well High</em> on the Comics Influx site.
ISBN 9781906653071
Hardcover - 168 pages - Colour - Published April 2010
Slate 7Spleenal - Nigel Auchterlounie (Limited Edition Hardcover) - &pound;16.99http://blankslatebooks.bigcartel.com/product/spleenal-nigel-auchterlounie-limited-edition-hardcover
http://blankslatebooks.bigcartel.com/product/spleenal-nigel-auchterlounie-limited-edition-hardcoverFri, 03 Sep 2010 10:34:05 +0100<img src="http://images.bigcartel.com/product_images/26374239/SPLEENALcover.jpg?auto=format&fit=max&h=300&w=300" title="Spleenal - Nigel Auchterlounie (Limited Edition Hardcover)" align="left" style="margin:0 10px 10px 0;" /><strong>Limited Hardcover with signed exclusive plate - only available from this site.</strong>
You invent a time machine, riches, wealth and power will surely follow. Not in Spleenal's world. Watch him travel back and forth in time using this gift to sleep with younger versions of his wife, create wife sex-bots and the 'Brazilian' wax.
Back in the present the internet presents a frustrated Spleenal with an opportunity he can't miss out on - guiltless sex. Or so he thinks until the panic starts, the wife gets involved and it doesn't quite turn out as expected. Funny, funny, funny and a bit dirty to boot. Spleenal is the Non-PC lurking in all of us.
<em>Recommended for Mature Readers.</em>
Softcover - 156 pages - B&amp;W - Published October 2009
Slate 6Spleenal - Nigel Auchterlounie (Limited Edition Hardcover) - &pound;16.99<strong>Limited Hardcover with signed exclusive plate - only available from this site.</strong>
You invent a time machine, riches, wealth and power will surely follow. Not in Spleenal's world. Watch him travel back and forth in time using this gift to sleep with younger versions of his wife, create wife sex-bots and the 'Brazilian' wax.
Back in the present the internet presents a frustrated Spleenal with an opportunity he can't miss out on - guiltless sex. Or so he thinks until the panic starts, the wife gets involved and it doesn't quite turn out as expected. Funny, funny, funny and a bit dirty to boot. Spleenal is the Non-PC lurking in all of us.
<em>Recommended for Mature Readers.</em>
Softcover - 156 pages - B&amp;W - Published October 2009
Slate 6Spleenal - Nigel Auchterlounie - &pound;10.99http://blankslatebooks.bigcartel.com/product/spleenal-nigel-auchterlounie
http://blankslatebooks.bigcartel.com/product/spleenal-nigel-auchterlounieFri, 03 Dec 2010 10:26:53 +0000<img src="http://images.bigcartel.com/product_images/28813857/SPLEENALcover.jpg?auto=format&fit=max&h=300&w=300" title="Spleenal - Nigel Auchterlounie" align="left" style="margin:0 10px 10px 0;" />You invent a time machine, riches, wealth and power will surely follow. Not in Spleenal's world. Watch him travel back and forth in time using this gift to sleep with younger versions of his wife, create wife sex-bots and the 'Brazilian' wax.
Back in the present the internet presents a frustrated Spleenal with an opportunity he can't miss out on - guiltless sex. Or so he thinks until the panic starts, the wife gets involved and it doesn't quite turn out as expected. Funny, funny, funny and a bit dirty to boot. Spleenal is the Non-PC lurking in all of us.
<em>Recommended for Mature Readers.</em>
Softcover - 156 pages - B&amp;W - Published October 2009
Slate 6Spleenal - Nigel Auchterlounie - &pound;10.99You invent a time machine, riches, wealth and power will surely follow. Not in Spleenal's world. Watch him travel back and forth in time using this gift to sleep with younger versions of his wife, create wife sex-bots and the 'Brazilian' wax.
Back in the present the internet presents a frustrated Spleenal with an opportunity he can't miss out on - guiltless sex. Or so he thinks until the panic starts, the wife gets involved and it doesn't quite turn out as expected. Funny, funny, funny and a bit dirty to boot. Spleenal is the Non-PC lurking in all of us.
<em>Recommended for Mature Readers.</em>
Softcover - 156 pages - B&amp;W - Published October 2009
Slate 6Sparky O'Hare - Mawil - &pound;4.99http://blankslatebooks.bigcartel.com/product/sparky-o-hare-mawil
http://blankslatebooks.bigcartel.com/product/sparky-o-hare-mawilFri, 03 Dec 2010 10:18:19 +0000<img src="http://images.bigcartel.com/product_images/28813625/SOHcover.jpg?auto=format&fit=max&h=300&w=300" title="Sparky O'Hare - Mawil" align="left" style="margin:0 10px 10px 0;" />Our 2nd Mawil book is a delightful series of cartoons about his super-cute rabbit electrician - he comes to fix things, and boy, does he fix them. Chaos, fun and laughter ensue. Mawil is loved by cartoonists like Scott McCloud and Jay Stephens, come and see what the fuss is about.
The book itself is a very neat smaller format (perfect gift-size!) edition with some funny jokes, an ongoing story at it's heart and some of the loveliest, most natural and vivacious cartooning you'll see.
<em>"I love Mawil's warm, lively cartooning. Utterly real, funny and adorable. I want to steal his secrets!"</em>
- Scott Mcloud, author of Understanding Comics and Zot
ISBN 9781906653033
Softcover - 94 pages - B&W - Published April 2009
Slate 4Sparky O'Hare - Mawil - &pound;4.99Our 2nd Mawil book is a delightful series of cartoons about his super-cute rabbit electrician - he comes to fix things, and boy, does he fix them. Chaos, fun and laughter ensue. Mawil is loved by cartoonists like Scott McCloud and Jay Stephens, come and see what the fuss is about.
The book itself is a very neat smaller format (perfect gift-size!) edition with some funny jokes, an ongoing story at it's heart and some of the loveliest, most natural and vivacious cartooning you'll see.
<em>"I love Mawil's warm, lively cartooning. Utterly real, funny and adorable. I want to steal his secrets!"</em>
- Scott Mcloud, author of Understanding Comics and Zot
ISBN 9781906653033
Softcover - 94 pages - B&W - Published April 2009
Slate 4Proper Go Well High - Oliver East - &pound;14.99http://blankslatebooks.bigcartel.com/product/proper-go-well-high
http://blankslatebooks.bigcartel.com/product/proper-go-well-highFri, 03 Dec 2010 10:06:47 +0000<img src="http://images.bigcartel.com/product_images/28813553/PGWHcover.jpg?auto=format&fit=max&h=300&w=300" title="Proper Go Well High - Oliver East" align="left" style="margin:0 10px 10px 0;" />Proper Go Well High is the second book by Manchester comic artist Oliver East. Following on from his 'breakout' book Trains are...Mint this book sees Oliver further adventuring out on walks from Manchester until he reaches Liverpool, recording the many things that pass us by in everyday life. Part travel book, part diary, Oliver manages to capture both the beauty and problems of this part of the country whilst passing some social and political comment as he goes. Told in a series of beautifully composed panels this is a step forward for the artist and another leg up the path of critical acclaim for the new British comics.
Trains are... Mint was nominated for the 2008 Ignatz award (recognising outstanding achievement in comics and cartooning) and Oliver was the cover and booklet artist on the Mercury award winning Elbow album "The Seldom Seen Kid".
What people are saying about Trains are...Mint and Oliver East:
<em>"Oliver East picks his readers out of their easy chairs and makes them follow him on his modest travels, experiencing the world as he does, seeing what he sees, sharing with them in that unadorned, curious voice. As long as he continues to ask me along I'm not sure I ever care if I figure it all out."</em>
- Tom Spurgeon, The Comics Reporter
<em>"Sometimes a book just catches you perfectly; you fall into its sweet spot and are overwhelmed by it. So it is with Trains Are…Mint. It’s a spectacular success. Oliver East’s Trains are…Mint is one of the most intriguing, complicated, difficult, strange and altogether wonderful books I have read in a long, long time. Yet when you attempt to describe it the first thing that comes to mind is to label it as a simple travelogue. But East obviously loves what he’s doing, loves the simple pleasures of his walk and his time just observing and it shows on every glorious page."</em>
- Richard Bruton, Forbidden Planet Blog
<em>"Oliver East walks. When he's done, he draws. In Trains Are...Mint, he walks and draws Manchester to Blackpool along the train tracks. It all seems terribly English and quite refreshing. East contributes walking not as a rural idyll, but a meditation on the other side of the tracks. He focuses on train stations and apartment blocks, trash-strewn alleys and scrawled graffiti. The results are oblique and intoxicating."</em>
- Bill Randall, The Comics Journal
ISBN 9781906653026
Hardback - 172 pages - Colour - Published May 2009
Slate 3Proper Go Well High - Oliver East - &pound;14.99Proper Go Well High is the second book by Manchester comic artist Oliver East. Following on from his 'breakout' book Trains are...Mint this book sees Oliver further adventuring out on walks from Manchester until he reaches Liverpool, recording the many things that pass us by in everyday life. Part travel book, part diary, Oliver manages to capture both the beauty and problems of this part of the country whilst passing some social and political comment as he goes. Told in a series of beautifully composed panels this is a step forward for the artist and another leg up the path of critical acclaim for the new British comics.
Trains are... Mint was nominated for the 2008 Ignatz award (recognising outstanding achievement in comics and cartooning) and Oliver was the cover and booklet artist on the Mercury award winning Elbow album "The Seldom Seen Kid".
What people are saying about Trains are...Mint and Oliver East:
<em>"Oliver East picks his readers out of their easy chairs and makes them follow him on his modest travels, experiencing the world as he does, seeing what he sees, sharing with them in that unadorned, curious voice. As long as he continues to ask me along I'm not sure I ever care if I figure it all out."</em>
- Tom Spurgeon, The Comics Reporter
<em>"Sometimes a book just catches you perfectly; you fall into its sweet spot and are overwhelmed by it. So it is with Trains Are…Mint. It’s a spectacular success. Oliver East’s Trains are…Mint is one of the most intriguing, complicated, difficult, strange and altogether wonderful books I have read in a long, long time. Yet when you attempt to describe it the first thing that comes to mind is to label it as a simple travelogue. But East obviously loves what he’s doing, loves the simple pleasures of his walk and his time just observing and it shows on every glorious page."</em>
- Richard Bruton, Forbidden Planet Blog
<em>"Oliver East walks. When he's done, he draws. In Trains Are...Mint, he walks and draws Manchester to Blackpool along the train tracks. It all seems terribly English and quite refreshing. East contributes walking not as a rural idyll, but a meditation on the other side of the tracks. He focuses on train stations and apartment blocks, trash-strewn alleys and scrawled graffiti. The results are oblique and intoxicating."</em>
- Bill Randall, The Comics Journal
ISBN 9781906653026
Hardback - 172 pages - Colour - Published May 2009
Slate 3We Can Still Be Friends - Mawil - &pound;7.99http://blankslatebooks.bigcartel.com/product/we-can-still-be-friends-mawil
http://blankslatebooks.bigcartel.com/product/we-can-still-be-friends-mawilFri, 03 Sep 2010 10:31:23 +0100<img src="http://images.bigcartel.com/product_images/26374215/WCSBFcover.jpg?auto=format&fit=max&h=300&w=300" title="We Can Still Be Friends - Mawil" align="left" style="margin:0 10px 10px 0;" />Berlin-based cartoonist Markus Witzel, who goes by the pen name of Mawil, has established a reputation in Europe for his cataloging of the awkwardness of relationships, especially with the opposite sex, but always with some terrific humour throughout, earning him an Icom Prize in 1998 and an international reputation among the comics community. We are delighted to be able to offer this English translation of a brilliant European comics creator.
<em>“Beautiful cartooning that captures the energy, awkwardness and freedom of youth and romantic infatuation.”</em>
Joe Matt
<em>“If only Mawil was as good with the girls as he is a cartoonist then we wouldn’t have these fun stories about how he isn’t any good with the girls. Which is good for us readers, I guess, and if Mawil’s adolescent love life had to suffer for the greater good, I’m okay with that. Thank you, Mawil,”</em>
Jeffrey Brown
ISBN 9781906653019
Softcover with flaps - 68 pages - B&W - Published May 2008
Slate 2We Can Still Be Friends - Mawil - &pound;7.99Berlin-based cartoonist Markus Witzel, who goes by the pen name of Mawil, has established a reputation in Europe for his cataloging of the awkwardness of relationships, especially with the opposite sex, but always with some terrific humour throughout, earning him an Icom Prize in 1998 and an international reputation among the comics community. We are delighted to be able to offer this English translation of a brilliant European comics creator.
<em>“Beautiful cartooning that captures the energy, awkwardness and freedom of youth and romantic infatuation.”</em>
Joe Matt
<em>“If only Mawil was as good with the girls as he is a cartoonist then we wouldn’t have these fun stories about how he isn’t any good with the girls. Which is good for us readers, I guess, and if Mawil’s adolescent love life had to suffer for the greater good, I’m okay with that. Thank you, Mawil,”</em>
Jeffrey Brown
ISBN 9781906653019
Softcover with flaps - 68 pages - B&W - Published May 2008
Slate 2Trains Are... Mint - Oliver East - &pound;12.99http://blankslatebooks.bigcartel.com/product/trains-are-mint-oliver-east
http://blankslatebooks.bigcartel.com/product/trains-are-mint-oliver-eastFri, 03 Dec 2010 10:01:32 +0000<img src="http://images.bigcartel.com/product_images/28813457/TAMcover.jpg?auto=format&fit=max&h=300&w=300" title="Trains Are... Mint - Oliver East" align="left" style="margin:0 10px 10px 0;" />Oliver East is one of the best known names in the vibrant British small press scene, with his Trains Are Mint series using an artist’s eye to spot out the many elements which make up the everyday world around us but which we often simply tune out and don’t notice, spotted as he travels around Manchester, all detailed with some lovely artwork. This is his first large collection of his work.
<em>“Oliver East has produced one of the most unique works to come out of the UK small press scene and one that I believe has a chance of crossing over to a much wider audience. His comic forgoes word balloons and the text and speech is all written in Oliver’s own longhand superimposed upon the images. Essentially this is a diary of walks along the train tracks between Manchester and Blackpool in the northwest of England.</em>
<em>The story is told in deceptively simple watercolours that many will see as childlike (somewhat like the work of a young John Porcellino) although in fact they convey not only the narrative but also the spontaneity of sketches - which seems highly appropriate to a diary. It also serves as eyewitness to what modern Britain is like behind the tourist posters, showing the everyday lives of small towns and people, and the often deep drabness at their center, it reminds me in feel of the films of Shane Meadows.”</em>
- Kenny Penman, director Forbidden Planet International and publisher of Blank Slate Books.
<em>“On the Road becomes On the Track as Oliver tramps, traipses, strolls and slogs from station to station… A unique use of comics, almost a time capsule of the unrecorded, everyday provinces,”</em>
- Paul Gravett, organiser of the ICA Comics festival and author of numerous books including Great British Comics.
Hardcover - 122 pages - Colour - Published May 2008
Slate 1Trains Are... Mint - Oliver East - &pound;12.99Oliver East is one of the best known names in the vibrant British small press scene, with his Trains Are Mint series using an artist’s eye to spot out the many elements which make up the everyday world around us but which we often simply tune out and don’t notice, spotted as he travels around Manchester, all detailed with some lovely artwork. This is his first large collection of his work.
<em>“Oliver East has produced one of the most unique works to come out of the UK small press scene and one that I believe has a chance of crossing over to a much wider audience. His comic forgoes word balloons and the text and speech is all written in Oliver’s own longhand superimposed upon the images. Essentially this is a diary of walks along the train tracks between Manchester and Blackpool in the northwest of England.</em>
<em>The story is told in deceptively simple watercolours that many will see as childlike (somewhat like the work of a young John Porcellino) although in fact they convey not only the narrative but also the spontaneity of sketches - which seems highly appropriate to a diary. It also serves as eyewitness to what modern Britain is like behind the tourist posters, showing the everyday lives of small towns and people, and the often deep drabness at their center, it reminds me in feel of the films of Shane Meadows.”</em>
- Kenny Penman, director Forbidden Planet International and publisher of Blank Slate Books.
<em>“On the Road becomes On the Track as Oliver tramps, traipses, strolls and slogs from station to station… A unique use of comics, almost a time capsule of the unrecorded, everyday provinces,”</em>
- Paul Gravett, organiser of the ICA Comics festival and author of numerous books including Great British Comics.
Hardcover - 122 pages - Colour - Published May 2008
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